I'd rather be dry and be able to breathe. I don't have many allergies to outside stuff, just indoor stuff. When it's so humid you can't even sweat until you get back inside where the air is drier? I seriously cannot function like that. I'm grateful for modern technology to keep the air in my house reasonably cool and dry, but going outside during times of high humidity is a major undertaking for me, and having to keep my house closed up means indoor allergies get worse.
My environmental allergies are to mold (severe), dust (mild), and a fall-pollinating tree (very mild).
Yeah, I'm all tree and grass pollen, mold and dust and animal dander don't bother me at all.
I don't really know what to wish for with all that, Dana.
I love humidity. I mean, 90% is a little excessive, but I much prefer it to having my skin dry out and all my clothes geting staticky and being shocked every time I touch something metal.
Having lived in dry and humid climes, I note only that when it's "cold" here (30-40 degrees) it can feel pretty miserable because it's a wet damp cold. However, my perpetually dry skin in New England enjoys the humidity (both cold and hot) much more. We all have our own unique tolerance (or lack thereof) to stimuli.
I may be more or less used to the humidity here but it doesn't mean I'm not sad when it gets here in full summer force.
Yeah, I'm all tree and grass pollen, mold and dust and animal dander don't bother me at all.
I'm allergic to ALL OF THAT. Plus probably other stuff as well.
The humidity doesn't bother me horribly until it's August and we've hit the third week in a row of 90+ temperatures and jungle humidity. That's overkill.
That doesn't mean I don't love central air, because I believe it's common knowledge that I would marry it if I could.
I get really pissed off about summer heat/humidity in September, because my New England expectations are that it should at least be starting to cool off. But nope!
I would die without central air. I almost did a couple years ago when ours had to be replaced. And that was in April.
I would die without central air. I almost did a couple years ago when ours had to be replaced. And that was in April.
When we got the current furnace/central air installed 4 or 5 years ago, it was installed in October or November, and the techs installing it said it was too cold for them to do some final thingie with the central air, so they would come back and do it in the spring, when the temperature would consistently stay above...65, I think? Or 60?
Anyway, that was all fine, until spring rolled around and in one week it jumped from 58 to 87 (because Cincinnati), and I was DYING. I am a delicate flower without climate control. (I called the furnace company in a panic and begged them to come out ASAP.)
I can't take heat well either. The Kansas summers I worked on the highway was not easy. I can remember holding a sign for an afternoon on blacktop and trying to keep my head clear when I started to hallucinate.
I was surprised to find out just how effective ceiling fans are in the summer. There's one in each bedroom in my house. I adore them.
Love my ceiling fans. One thing about the dryer air here, swamp coolers work, which is pretty neat. Probably not a good thing to use during the drought, but neat.
Yikes, Gud, that's pretty bad!
