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| The exhibition celebrates the history of an old candle making factory which was based on Bankside more than 100 years ago |
It is July 21 and the day will be roasting hot by noon. Temperatures of our area may reach 108 deg. today.
Just when the inside feels like I could bake cookies on the counter, a magical thing happens.
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local energy company SDG & E electric employs the FLEX energy plan
to keep the electrical grids from overloading. That means they can turn
my A/C off. Off!! with the fan still running.
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Off,
with the interior thermometer rising slowly up the scale. 82º? That
is nothing. 86º, and it keeps rising. I stop looking.
Outside? Thermometer past 95 and still going...
Outside? Thermometer past 95 and still going...
The A/C returned. God bless it.
This is a re-post from 2020 or 2014 or 2013. It doesn't matter; hot one year or the other doesn't matter.
I feel for you. Summer turns me into a sad and soggy mess.
ReplyDeleteI become very unhappy when the temp heads to 40C/104F. Very unhappy.
DeleteHot is hot! Hang in there! (And thanks for coming by!)
ReplyDeleteI would love a few days of rain. Or maybe a week.
DeleteWe had the rain for the last week. Today it's 13C and sunny. Stay cool, Susan and hopefully the heat will go aways very soon.
ReplyDeleteHope and pray. this gets old very fast, lasts a long time.
DeleteYeah, I've been positively awful the past week or so. I do not do heat well.
ReplyDeleteAlthough, get one of those Arctic Air thingies. I bought one a couple years back on a whim, and it works. It won't cool off a room, but if your a/c is turned off due to a flex alert, it will blow cold air at you. And sometimes that's all you need.
Arctic Air? That sounds excellent. Living in a community with very old residents, this would be a great addition.
DeleteOur turn coming this week...
ReplyDeleteBest of luck to you.
DeleteYou do not want the AC going out at the height of summer!
ReplyDeleteIt gets pretty nasty in that house.
DeleteWe have been told our electric companies can turn off random aircons too, which makes no sense at all in the heatwave days. If the infrastructure is in danger of overloading perhaps they need to upgrade the works, there seems to be enough profit going to the CEO's to enable that.
ReplyDeleteSure seems like that to me.
DeleteDo keep cool if you can and I don't like the idea of them turning of your electricity but thankfully it returned.
ReplyDeleteLiving where I do it doesn't get too hot even though some think it does in the summer, our State of Tasmania sells hydro power to the State of Victoria.
Tasmania sells its power to state of Victoria?
DeleteGo buy a generator to run the AC. One that can detect when the power goes off and automatically starts.
ReplyDeleteOr rerun power from your main panel to the AC unit that bypasses their cutoff switch.
All makes good sense.
Deleteone of my Husbands longest and loudest rants is over the same thing of the AC off at
ReplyDeleteTHEIR will!.
What can one expect?
DeleteStay cool! Love the melting teapot graphic.
ReplyDeleteCan't get much better than that.
DeleteThe picture of the teapot is wonderful. Try to stay cool.
ReplyDeleteYou keep cool as well.
DeleteI don't know that the living has ever been easy in the summertime, in spite of what the song says.
ReplyDeleteThe song lies.
DeleteI don't understand. Are you saying the electricity company can turn off one item, (the air-con), and keep the fan and other items on, (e.g. fridge, washing machine and cooker)? Are different items on different circuits in the house?
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
Yes, but it is to save energy. the program reduces the amount and power used by a/c, as it is the biggest energy consumer. the fan is still active, but the temp. control is off. .
DeleteWe have solar panels and a solar battery backup. When temps are forecasted that may put a strain on the energy grid, the electric company buys some of the electricity generated by our solar panels. We're in a program. This helps the strain on the grid and the electric company doesn't have to fire up a gas powered plant to handle the extra demand. We also get $$ back for being in the program. Win win
ReplyDeleteAfter living 27 yrs. in one house, we moved to be closer to our daughter. This house has solar panels, and we also have the benefits.
DeleteStay as cool as you can.
ReplyDeleteAll the best Jan