From: Bruce C. Beattie (bruce@eecs.berkeley.edu)
Date: Sun Dec 19 2004 - 17:47:00 PST
This is also true in Puerto Rico where I grew up.
Cars just melted away before your very eyes, or so it seemed.
Bruce MVPA 23824
Mil-Veh Co. wrote:
>I lived in Hawaii for many years. No need for any
>sort of heating or cooling if you lived at the right
>altitude. The bad part was you were in a constant
>battle with rust and termites! If we stopped doing
>anything to preserve cars, houses, etc., it would all
>turn back to jungle in less than a 100 years and you
>wouldn't even know we had been there. No kiddin,
>everything breaks down over their super fast, even
>reinforced concrete, asphalt, wood, cars, trucks will
>rust away to nothing in 20 years if they are kept
>around the ocean and not rinsed off almost daily. I
>would suggest you never buy a GL truck from Hawaii,
>they're rust buckets!
>
>
>--- Ryan Gill <rmgill@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>>At 2:22 PM -0500 12/19/04, Glenn Shaw wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hi Wayne
>>>
>>>And I always though that New England weather was
>>>
>>>
>>crazy. I never think of
>>
>>
>>>Georgia and Florida in terms of 20 degree temps.
>>>
>>>
>>Are home heating systems
>>
>>
>>>even desgined to deal with that normally down
>>>
>>>
>>there?
>>
>>Depends on the house. Usually houses are built
>>pretty solid. Insulation against heat is just as
>>useful against insulation against cold, so in
>>addition to being cool in the summer, they can be
>>pretty warm in the winter. There's not as much
>>emphasis on some of the systems up north, most
>>heat is natural gas or propane if you're in the
>>middle of no-where (or don't want to be on the
>>grid). Some houses have electric heat pumps (like
>>my neighbors). Usually its a natural gas/central
>>air system.
>>
>>My grandparents house in Albany, Ga always stayed
>>nice and warm in the winter. That was a much
>>older house (40's construction?). The biggest
>>thing is that as you go further south, the
>>greater emphesis that is placed on a good AC
>>system.
>>Heat is easily an afterthought.
>>--
>>--
>>Ryan Gill rmgill@SPAMmindspring.com
>>
>>
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