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Originally Posted by booklover6
Wow I never knew the weather was that bad, there. We lived in Chesapeake VA for 15 years (plus I went to High School there, years before that), and the humidity was so thick you could cut it with a knife, BUT we were on the coast so lots of breezes, really a completely different weather pattern in that little corner of the state. Now we live in the Mountains of central PA and people complain of humidity here.....hah. It is so much worse in Va Beach. Even in Washington DC (We lived there, well in MD, for years also).
But it sounds like Raleigh is way, way worse than anything I have ever experienced. I can hardly imagine what life was like, there, before AC. It must have been torture.
Blossom I hope you have good AC in your vehicle!
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We got a break from the heat today thanks to the rain. I had to turn both A/Cs down.
I am slowly accumulating as I can now stand the apartment when it's 73. It's 72 in here and I feel a little chilly. It's 82 out. The heat here is different than up north. The sun feels so close you burn within minutes without sunscreen.
What I think of Raleigh humidity. It's like walking into a laundry room with little ventilation where the washer and dryer have been going all day. It feels like that only with the sun so close burning your skin.
The good thing about this apartment is if it's cloudy out it's stays pretty comfortable but if it's sunny out I have crank up the A/Cs.
That little A/C really works! On high it's gets the room a chilly 64! So I try to keep it at 70 in the bedroom then that helps cool the rest of the apartment and take some stress off the big A/C which was running all day before we got the little one. Now it cycles on and off through the day which is good because that should help with electric bill. The little one is 515 watts which is less than most computers. The TPAC which I have no idea the model the LG site had it at 2.3-2.7 Kilowatts. We were told by the leasing agent who said she leaves her on all day at 68 that her electric bill was $43 a month. We got our first bill which was only 18 days and it was $75. I have a feeling it's going to run as much as the winter bill did back in TN as our Summer bill was $80 at most there and that was with central air on 68 all summer long. The winter bill ran from $130-$150 a month though.
Our vehicle A/C is wonky sometimes it works good and sometimes it takes awhile to blow cool air. I'm hibernating till fall though so unless I have to get out which I don't see any reason for it. I am staying indoors.
Got some of my books unpacked on their shelves. The apartment is slowly coming together. We sold our washer & dryer on Craigslist so that helped out some now I am trying to sell our Dressers. I got to tell you Craigslist sucks. It's full of weirdos. I think out of ten inquiries only one is legit. I miss the old days when you put an ad in the paper. I wouldn't deal with it but we need to clean the storage out before mid July.
Hubby's has had a few interviews and has applied at like 70 different places but nothing yet he is learning that here you do not take people at face value like you do back in TN. They may tell you one thing and mean another. He's such an old school guy trying to adjust in a modern city where people play by different rules.