Question for the dads...

Its funny... but my kids set the upstairs ac without written permission earlier in the week and then complained when there was no heat the last couple of freezing nights.

Luckily for me, anything below 80 and my wife is frozen in the summer. Unluckily for me, that extends into the winter. I am trying to convince her that wearing jackets inside like @Humey and multi blankets on the couch is how the fashionable families live.
 
1. It was an outlier: Your father realized that 84° in March in Vegas was not regular, but +20° above average.
2. It was too early: He also knew that average March temps were usually 36° cooler than the annual max, which was still four months away.
3. It was a month ago: You've hung on to this difficult interaction for nearly a month. That means things have only gotten hotter in that room.
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Luckily for me, anything below 80 and my wife is frozen in the summer. Unluckily for me, that extends into the winter. I am trying to convince her that wearing jackets inside like @Humey and multi blankets on the couch is how the fashionable families live.
I open the window now at night, which is nice for when I'm sleeping but when I wake up...

I've been almost late to class (online) due to the fact I don't want to get out of bed because it's that cold. Wearing a baggy sweater and sweatpants are now my favorite in the morning. It warms up later as the day goes on.
 
OMG imagine growing up in Chicago where the summers are hot, ick and humid and having an german father from the old country who proclaimed that "swetting is guuut!" (so no AC). At some point my mom cracked and bought a window unit from a garage sale and had my older sister and I go pick it up with my little brothers flexible flyer red wagon and drag it home a few blocks. We put it in the dining room window and everyone got their mattresses and camped out in the dining room under the table. Except for my dad. For like the month of August.

Now I live where winter is about 6 months long and 80 degrees F (for one week in August) is considered sweltering. No AC necessary.

EDIT> We actually put a wood stove into our living room although we put a super high tech, high efficient gas furnace in the year before that. Just in case of Armageddon.
 
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Funny story- in the early 1960s my Dad retrofitted an oil burner in his in-laws formerly-coal-burning boiler. This required a thermostat to be installed to control the temp, whereas with the coal a thermostat was not required... they just opened the damper further or added coal if they wanted it warmer.

SEVERAL years later, my folks dropped in and my Dad commented that it felt cold in the house and walked over to check the thermostat. My grandmother said “Oh, you can’t touch that!” My dad asked why (since he had installed it) and she said “It’s factory adjusted.” My dad had no idea what she meant by that: “What are you talking about?” he asked. My grandfather was making faces trying to shake my dad’s line of questioning off but it was too late.
Turns out my (Great Depression-era) Grandfather had made that story up when it was installed so that she wouldn’t adjust it. She was quite embarrassed and more than a little mad at him since for YEARS she had grumbled that the house was too cold “ever since they switched to oil heat.”
Different times for sure. But still a HVAC-helicopter Dad story.
 
I open the window now at night, which is nice for when I'm sleeping but when I wake up...

I've been almost late to class (online) due to the fact I don't want to get out of bed because it's that cold. Wearing a baggy sweater and sweatpants are now my favorite in the morning. It warms up later as the day goes on.
That used to be one of the duties of the Plebes at USNA. Close the upperclass windows 30-60 minutes prior to them waking up in the winter. And you better not wake them up doing it.
 
I'm impressed as well, here in Vegas it can get to 115 degrees in the summer, and stays hot until around mid November...
How do you deal with the heat? Do people get used to the high temperatures or does everyone stay indoors and crank up the Air Conditioning?
 
How do you deal with the heat? Do people get used to the high temperatures or does everyone stay indoors and crank up the Air Conditioning?
the thing about Vegas as someone who lives in LA but used to go at least twice a year is that everything is air-conditioned. You leave your house with air and get into your car with air. Wherever you go will have air. As someone who lives in the west, it is funny (not funny haha) when someone dies in the midwest from high heat. That really doesn't happen out here because there is air wherever you go. I would assume the homeless don't have that luxury but we go from air to air except for those moments where we sometimes have to step outside of the car to get into another building. Vegas even more so especially if you are visiting and staying in the hotels. The weird part is going from like 65 degrees inside to 110 outside and then back to 65 inside
 
the thing about Vegas as someone who lives in LA but used to go at least twice a year is that everything is air-conditioned. You leave your house with air and get into your car with air. Wherever you go will have air. As someone who lives in the west, it is funny (not funny haha) when someone dies in the midwest from high heat. That really doesn't happen out here because there is air wherever you go. I would assume the homeless don't have that luxury but we go from air to air except for those moments where we sometimes have to step outside of the car to get into another building. Vegas even more so especially if you are visiting and staying in the hotels. The weird part is going from like 65 degrees inside to 110 outside and then back to 65 inside
I took my kids to a Vikings game in Minnesota.

You walked out of 72 to -400 to go to the stadium. I could handle the heat.
 
the thing about Vegas as someone who lives in LA but used to go at least twice a year is that everything is air-conditioned. You leave your house with air and get into your car with air. Wherever you go will have air.
Indeed, however in the car I have it's like entering an oven and then takes about 10 minutes for the air to cool it down to a manageable temperature. There's no room for my car in the garage so it sits out in the baking sun 😂
 
But it's a dry heat.


Like what you get inside an oven ;)

I asked a person that lived in New Mexico once if they owned a convertible car and they said no. When the idea of it's a dry heat came up the response was "yes it's a dry heat, but if you are wearing shorts and your bare skin hits the metal seat belt buckle it really doesn't matter if it's a dry heat"
 
I was in 29 Palms two summers ago and the temperature got up to 112~115 with a 30 mph wind.

My face felt like it was melting off my skin.
 
but if you are wearing shorts and your bare skin hits the metal seat belt buckle it really doesn't matter if it's a dry heat"
Or if your bare hand accidentally grabs the metal seat buckle... even the seatbelt strap on bare shoulders.
 
Indeed, however in the car I have it's like entering an oven and then takes about 10 minutes for the air to cool it down to a manageable temperature. There's no room for my car in the garage so it sits out in the baking sun 😂
i have the same issue in Los Angeles as my car is outside and what's worse is my interiors are usually black. What saves me is that when I go to work in the morning it's usually not that hot outside, and when I get to work I park in the basement. The only time the heat is an issue is on the weekend when I get inside the car mid-day and it's like 100 outside. Then my black seats burn everyone's butt. That doesn't bother me, but the steering wheel and some of the metal finishes do a number on my fingers.
 
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