[pshrynk]

Our home is a ninety year old brick house with long overhangs that keep teh sun out of the upstairs. It has thick walls and tons of windows. The windows, when all open allow lots of air circulation. There is a house fan in the attic that we turn on at night that pulls all the night time air into the house. There is a chiller in the basement, that if we run the sprinklers all day and turn on the fan, pushed chilled air into the core of the house through the laundry chute. (La Crosse has more than abundant water and the sprinkling recharges the aquafer or runs to the river, which then recharges the aquafer.) We have no air conditioners. When it got to 97 degrees yesterday, we were a bit uncomfortable when we went to bed, but fans solved the problem and we were comfortable the rest of the night.

Winters, here, on the other hand are miserable and brutal...