Air conditioner

[Fox Mike]

Was watching the news tonight when they said that a number of schools were closing because of no air conditioning. My first through eighth grades schools never had A/C. I also never had it at home. Mom and Dad did install it much after I was gone. Just wondering how many here went to non-ac schools OR had the school closed because of the heat.

 

[hittman]

I dont remember my school every closing due to heat. I went in the same building K thru 12th grade. No air conditioning when I was there.

We did have closures due to snow from time to time.

 

[SamV]

A.C.? HA HA HA funny
Alabama, uniforms with ties, grades 1 through 8.
High school the same, but add wool slacks.

 

[RSIno1]

Blame it on global warming. You know there has been a 1/4 degree increase of the average temp in the last 25 years.
Think of it as a reverse snow day.

 

[Jeepnik]

I don’t think any schools in my district had AC.

 

[Pat-inCO]

I did the first nine grades in West Los Angeles.
ZERO a/c. Didn't have it in the house either.

Had an attic fan in my first house (1974), then evap cooling until 2004.
Window A/C until 2018, and whole house since moving to AZ.

 

[powder smoke]

No AC when I grew up! Schools in the North East needed heat not AC!
Most of our Scorching heat was summertime no school in the summer unless you needed extra help!
Load kids in a school bus truck them to Colby Farms and Weed Gardens! Only half day tho.
IIRC we got a dollar a day. ps

 

[arfmel]

Back in the 1960s we didn’t have air conditioning at the elementary schools I attended in Oklahoma City or Denver. Didn’t seem necessary in Denver, but I remember some pretty hot, sticky days in OKC. The teacher had a big old black iron oscillating fan (the kind that would chop your fingers off, we were warned) on her desk and it felt good when she’d turn it on and point it out towards us. Pure luxury was when we’d get a mimeographed assignment to work on. There was a little alcohol left in the paper and if you pressed it on your face with the fan blowing on you it cooled you off. Pretty well for a few seconds.

A couple of real hot days, the teacher took us outside and we had class in the shade under a big tree.

 

[Captain America]

I was in a brand new elementary school that had AC, none in middle school or high school…used my paper route money to buy two window units so we had AC upstairs in the house for comfortable sleeping.

 

[JFB]

In their defence. . .
the modern "super" schools are designed with closed ventalation, thus like being in a parked car in the sun with windows up. another is the shear number of students packed in there increases the heat load.

I attended country school in the 60's with out AC, BUT one complete side of each room were large windows that open and on a windy day the hall ways were like wind tunnels

 

[contender]

Sometimes "progress" is NOT progress at all.

 

[gunzo]

In their defence. . .
the modern "super" schools are designed with closed ventalation, thus like being in a parked car in the sun with windows up. another is the shear number of students packed in there increases the heat load.

I attended country school in the 60's with out AC, BUT one complete side of each room were large windows that open and on a windy day the hall ways were like wind tunnels

Very good analogy. The schools I attended until 1971 rarely got overly hot on warm days.

On the other hand, the big drafty structures got plenty cold during some winters.

 

[nrobe50]

In their defence. . .
the modern "super" schools are designed with closed ventalation, thus like being in a parked car in the sun with windows up. another is the shear number of students packed in there increases the heat load.

I attended country school in the 60's with out AC, BUT one complete side of each room were large windows that open and on a windy day the hall ways were like wind tunnels

Good point....try running a cab tractor with the a/c not working. No ventilation and no windows that are big enough to help much.

 

[ronto]

From K-12 we just opened the windows.

 

[Ale-8(1)]

And yet we all survived, even when it was uphill, both ways, barefoot, in the snow, etc.

OK . . . no snow in the summer, but still . . .

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[Jimbo357mag]

Why go back in time. How many would like to spend 8 hours in a classroom right now without a/c? Not me. Times have changed people.

 

[Captain America]

Why go back in time. How many would like to spend 8 hours in a classroom right now without a/c? Not me. Times have changed people.

I spend 10 hours a day at work win no AC...I'm sure I'm not the only one here.

 

[turd]

And yet we all survived, even when it was uphill, both ways, barefoot, in the snow, etc.

OK . . . no snow in the summer, but still . . .

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Haha, yep, a lot like that here as well, except in South Dakota the wind was always in your face, and blowing so hard for each step towards school it blew you two steps back. The only way to get there was to turn around and try to walk home........ :mrgreen:

No one I knew had air conditioning.

 

[rkrcpa]

From K-12 we just opened the windows.

That's what we did also. In Florida.

 

[Jimbo357mag]

It ain't just heat. The UV risk is at 11 here today.

https://www.epa.gov/sunsafety/uv-index-scale-0

 

[crstrode]

Snowflakes do not do well without pampering.

 

[blume357]

I think as mentioned part of it is the newer buildings are not designed to be habitable with out AC during semi-warm weather.

 

[Kevin]

I think as mentioned part of it is the newer buildings are not designed to be habitable with out AC during semi-warm weather.

Exactly, some, lots in fact, of the new buildings don't have windows that can be opened. I know "back in the day" when you guys walked to school up hill etc... the one room school house had windows for fresh air. Today modern schools just don't. My daughter's school has some windows, but not enough to provide a good airflow without the A/C. Especially here in Texas. In late August and early September, it could be over 100 in the afternoon, they would have to cancel school without the A/C.

Snowflakes do not do well without pampering.

I don't think it has anything to do with being a "snowflake" Whatever that is...

 

[prairieviper]

Well, schools still have windows that open here in cornfields and cows country and some of our buildings are pretty new. I would have to see some proof about buildings not being designed to be habitable without air conditioning. No, we have become a nation of sissies where no one is supposed to be inconvenienced, uncomfortable or offended. That's it in a nutshell.

 

[bearman49709]

Well, schools still have windows that open here in cornfields and cows country and some of our buildings are pretty new. I would have to see some proof about buildings not being designed to be habitable without air conditioning. No, we have become a nation of sissies where no one is supposed to be inconvenienced, uncomfortable or offended. That's it in a nutshell.

I'm a great grandfather graduated a long time ago. Both JR High and High school most rooms had no windows. Hallway in front, classrooms on three sides.

In JR High we had to read a story about someone being trapped in a house with windows that couldn't open because the house was built with a/c, I had to ask what a/c was.

 

[blume357]

I've spent years working on chimneys on roofs during the summers here in S.C. Inside a building with no A.C. is nothing compared to this.... in the middle of the day in the middle of summer you are usually standing on a 185 degree heater.... I finally realized after 38 years of this... I ain't doing it anymore. The reality is I can't anymore....
We lost power at our home Monday afternoon for about 3 hours.... with out AC I choose to do nothing but sit in front of my cordless fan and play solitaire on my iPhone.

 

[caryc]

You want to talk about heat? Try doing 8 hours a day in an evaporator room or boiler room on a Navy ship. Downright nasty heat and sweat. A lot of heat rash going on there. Sixteen hundred or 4 PM was the best time of the day. You could get out of there and take a much needed shower. But then if you were on a duty day, you had another four hours to do at some time during the night. I hear that modern ships now have AC, even in those very hot places.

 

[Jimbo357mag]

You want to talk about heat? Try doing 8 hours a day in an evaporator room or boiler room on a Navy ship.... ...I hear that modern ships now have AC, even in those very hot places.

Yeah, Those guys in the Navy now are a bunch of Snowflakes.

 

[protoolman]

No ac in my house or one of my vehicles. Got a few shade trees over the house an a couple fans.

 

[Rick Courtright]

Hi,

No A/C K-12. Not sure if any of the classrooms in college had A/C, but we had a lot of west facing windows to look at the beach thru and it seems they would all open for ventilation.

Got sent home for heat one time I recall. Freshman or sophomore year of HS, in San Diego. They were having a heat wave and it was close to 85 at the beach a couple of miles away.

Today I think 85 is very nice, as long as it's dry.

Rick C