Hot enough for you?

[audreyld]

My first electric bill in Austin, for a one-bedroom loft was over $300. Too flippin' hot.

Looks like it's finally warming up down there, just in time for me to return.

 

[Tom Petty]

On one hand, it's nice to work from home because you aren't out in the heat.
On the other, you hear the AC click on and off and dread the upcoming billl

It's funny, but where I am the electricity bill never goes higher than 55 bucks even when I run my window unit 24/7. On the other hand, my gas bill can run well over 100 in the winter, even for a 400-foot apartment. So in that regard, I like the summer more than the winter. Though I may break down and get a new window unit that heats and cools, to save gas in the colder months. I basically live in my main room anyway, what with my being scared to move my bed from home for fear I'll lose my job weeks later, like what happened the last time I moved it.

My electric bill is easily $200 in the summer. My gas on the other hand is usually $75 (meter read, pass through charges, taxes, etc) before I'm even charged for gas used. So in the winter, it's easily $200 too. I'm damned if I do, damned if I don't.

damn

 

[JayFarrar]

KG
On your gas bill, shut off the pilot light for your furnace and see if your water heater has a vacation setting, mine does, and set it on that.
My gas bill went from close to fifty bucks a month to under $20 when I did those things at my joint. As long as you don't like a scaldingly hot shower or showers that go on for hours, the water will still be hot enough for you to notice. And the close to thirty bucks you save is worth it.

 

[OnTheRiver]

It's ****in' excruciating here.

Evansville gets a 100-degree day like once every 10 years, and that's no exaggeration.

It's been over 100 the past two days, and we're seitting at 99 degrees before 2 p.m. It's gonna crack 102 today.

And the dewpoint's around 75, so when you walk outside, you instantly get soaked from head to toe.

Good news, though: High of "only" 96 tomorrow, followed by 93 on Saturday. Then, of course, the temperature gets back above 100 for Sunday and Monday.

We haven't had five 100 degree days in this town in my 29 years on the planet, and we're about to get five of them in seven days.

**** summer. **** Indiana. **** humidity. **** all the smartass "quit bitchin' about typical summer weather" assholes we've got chiming in on the feedback portions of heat stories on our Web site. This ain't typical, whistledick. It's like someone ****ing shoved a 1,000-mile wide toaster into the earth's inner core and sprang the ****in' lever.

**** it's hot.

 

[OnTheRiver]

Oh, and for what it's worth ...

... Whatever cold front finally sweeps through the Ohio Valley and puts a shotgun in the mouth of this heat wave is gonna be a homewrecker. It doesn't get this hot around here for this long without there being some sort of major consequences when it finally cools off.

 

[imjustagirl2]

The heat index here yesterday was 116, according to a TV guy I know. I had heard on the radio it would be up to 110. Apparently it went higher.

My WeatherBug right now reads 106. And that's NOT the heat index.

 

[OnTheRiver]

The heat index here yesterday was 116, according to a TV guy I know. I had heard on the radio it would be up to 110. Apparently it went higher.

My WeatherBug right now reads 106. And that's NOT the heat index.

Makes you want to run out and commit a felony, doesn't it?

 

[imjustagirl2]

I have the a/c on in my house, AND a fan running in my bedroom.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

How fast is he running, and is he fast enough?

 

[Chef]

Wife playing in a softball tournament saturday........gonna be 103......w/o the heat index.

Her first game is at 1:15........then at 3:00.

she's gonna be real happy.

 

[JoelHammond]

I'm heading to Charleston, W. Va. Sunday then on to Richmond ... And I'm definitely not looking forward to it.

Heat indeces in Richmond are approaching 115, apparently. Good thing my folks sprung for that hot tub!

 

[slappy4428]

On one hand, it's nice to work from home because you aren't out in the heat.
On the other, you hear the AC click on and off and dread the upcoming billl

It's funny, but where I am the electricity bill never goes higher than 55 bucks even when I run my window unit 24/7. On the other hand, my gas bill can run well over 100 in the winter, even for a 400-foot apartment. So in that regard, I like the summer more than the winter. Though I may break down and get a new window unit that heats and cools, to save gas in the colder months. I basically live in my main room anyway, what with my being scared to move my bed from home for fear I'll lose my job weeks later, like what happened the last time I moved it.

My electric bill is easily $200 in the summer. My gas on the other hand is usually $75 (meter read, pass through charges, taxes, etc) before I'm even charged for gas used. So in the winter, it's easily $200 too. I'm damned if I do, damned if I don't.

damn

Mine is about 160 electric for summer and 60-80 for gas/water (which sucks because the only gas is the water heater and it accounts for like 40 bucks.
Winter, it's reversed. Gas/Water is close to 200 and electric I can make work around 40-50....

 

[slappy4428]

How fast is he running, and is he fast enough?

 

[imjustagirl2]

Well, I keep him around because he looks good in a towel and nothing else.

Sometimes he fans me with it.

 

[Diabeetus]

I can't wait for tomorrow! The temp might not even get to 70

 

[Cosmo]

Played 18 holes in 104-degree heat today. Heat index was 112ish. Not my smartest moment. I still feel like I'm emanating heat.

 

[Diabeetus]

The heat index here yesterday was 116, according to a TV guy I know. I had heard on the radio it would be up to 110. Apparently it went higher.

My WeatherBug right now reads 106. And that's NOT the heat index.

Makes you want to run out and commit a felony, doesn't it?

Amazing side sig!

 

[KG]

KG
On your gas bill, shut off the pilot light for your furnace and see if your water heater has a vacation setting, mine does, and set it on that.
My gas bill went from close to fifty bucks a month to under $20 when I did those things at my joint. As long as you don't like a scaldingly hot shower or showers that go on for hours, the water will still be hot enough for you to notice. And the close to thirty bucks you save is worth it.

Well starting last year I started using these http://www.nextag.com/Holmes-HEATER-SWIRL-GRILL-545365353/prices-html. I mentioned them in the a/c help thread. Three of them keep a 3br/2ba house quite warm in the winter. The furnace hardly ran after I got them.

I think the biggest problem is the lack of insulation. The attic and one wall are now heavily insulated, thanks to a tree that fell through the house when Ivan rolled through. But when we were redoing the wall on the side of the house where it crashed through, there were only bits and pieces of insulation. I'm assuming the rest of the exterior walls are the same, and since it's a rental, I'm not going to bother with getting blown in put in the walls.

As for the showers...scalding is the only way to go for me, save for the 104 degree days.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Woo-hoo, record high temp today!!!

And it's 98 right now.

 

[Tom Petty]

Woo-hoo, record high temp today!!!

And it's 98 right now.

i think it's still 112 here at 10:41.