[elky] Re: The real heat is here.
- From: John Christensen <johncgg@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: elky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 05:29:01 -0500
We finally got some rain yesterday. Still going to be 97, and now the
humidity will skyrocket. Our Electric bill was $300 with high efficiency
A/C on a lot this month. More days at 100 than we have ever had
historically.
JC
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Robert Adams <elcam84@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Was 100* just before noon and didn't drop under 100* till 7pm
> yesterday The high was 108*. Now you guys that are getting 100* temps
> complain but you don't have it for 7hrs of the day it's just the high
> temp...
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> The AC did cycle some yesterday. The windows we have
> put in have made a big difference in air leakage.Will get to the rest of
> them in the fall or spring. Only have one 6'x6' window out front to do and
> the other three in the back are 36x36 and smaller bathroom windows. The 36"
> being a new window I'm putting in the laundry room.
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> All the grass is dead. Everything up front is dead
> cause it's mainly st augustine (AKA crabgrass). In the back I have a tiny
> patch or two of sahara bermuda which will come back if the roots grew
> enough(supposed to grow well here yeah right) and a bigger patch of
> centipede grass that is actually the only grass that does well in this poor
> soil and it will come back as well. If all goes well this week I'll have
> more cash to spend on the house but less time to do anything. Not a whole
> lot as remember living in TX pay is half or less what it is up north. Hence
> the illusion of cheap houses and lower cost of living. My favorite line in
> an article about why TX has the most fast growing citys was along the lines
> that houses seem cheap to people from other states.(till they see the
> 300-400 elec bills in the summer for those slightly larger houses.
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> And also cause of the heat gas mileage on cars goes
> down this time of year too. WIth that AC compressor running full load all
> the time it drags allot more than you think. I'm around 22 lately. Was
> getting closer to 28 before it got hot but as it cools off the mileage goes
> up and the engine has more power. The loss in power is very noticeable when
> it's 100*+ and more than that on the pavement.
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> Elky news. I have mine up for sale locally. WIll be
> posting on ECC and others soon. I would think it would sell so someone up
> north cause of the lack of rust.
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> Robert Adams
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