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Heatwave

For some reason, Seattlites don't believe that they need air conditioning in their houses. Nobody has it. Well, a few do obviously, but the vast majority don't. They say they don't need it..... that it's not hot enough to warrant it.

They're insane.

The summer starts here around June and ends at the end of September and you can pretty much guarantee that there will be little to no rainfall and searing hot temperatures. Right now we're in the midst of a heatwave and we've had 3 days of over 100 degrees with it going down into the 90's overnight.

It's absolutely unbearable. Especially Chez Jones where the entire West side of the house is made of windows facing the sun. We've had the blinds down all day but it's still over 90 indoors.

We have a stand-alone air conditioning unit which works only if you're sitting infront of it and has little effect on the house overall. We move it into the bedroom at night before we go to sleep so that we can at least do so.. but obviously after it's turned off you wake covered in sweat and sweltering.

At least it's not humid.

Yesterday we ended up at the Pro Club in the pool because we just couldn't cool off. We swam and brought our body temperatures down and then ate dinner there, braving the outside again when it was under 100... but coming back to a horribly hot house once more. Today we went to the blissfully air conditioned mall and had dinner there in an attempt to stay out of the heat! This was after spending the morning unloading everything from the kitchen into boxes so that G can demolish it as soon as we're gone - heavy work made no easier by the temperature.

And apparently it's not much better in the UK either, where air conditioning is also a rumour!

Bring on Winter! Bring on installed air conditioning ASAP!