This is our new homemade swamp cooler. It was built using a styrofoam cooler, 2 leaf blower elbow attachments, and a personal fan. Holds 16+ pounds of ice. Won't cool a room but does offer some relief if sitting in front of it. Designed for two. Each nozzle can be rotated independently.
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Seen 108F on back to back days in Wilsonville, about a dozen years ago. Not happy with a repeat.
ReplyDelete107 in the day and 75 at night is going to be a brutal way to start a 111 degree day.
ReplyDeleteCould be worse. Wildfire season is coming. Imagine combining this with hazardous air quality. Hasn’t happened. Yet. *cringe*
How much for an NFT of it?
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Quite an impressive engineering feat. It's like the whole damn planet is warming up or something.
ReplyDeleteI meant feat as used, not like "featuring" in a rap song, e.g. Engineering feat. DJ Math.
It’s 107 right now. Made it to 109. I’m inspired to invent Engineering Feet. That’s basically a swamp cooler on each foot!
ReplyDeleteDamn, it’s hot. Looks like I picked the wrong week to not have air conditioning.
https://youtu.be/VmW-ScmGRMA
Aurora Airport (nearest reporting station to my apartment) reached 106F Saturday, 112F Sunday, 114F today. Swamp cooler prospects have plummeted now as air temperature has dropped below 80F and is expected to reach 63F by dawn. Thank goodness for marine air.
ReplyDelete114F? Ouch.
ReplyDeleteDespite my efforts to optimally cool the house using 2 industrial sized fans venting hot air all last night, the upstairs peaked at 93F and the downstairs peaked at 88F.
The swamp cooler, even aimed directly at one’s head, was a bit like fending off Godzilla with a pea shooter.
We have a “Cool Bed” pad filled with 6 gallons of water for the dogs. Offered some relief, especially with 6 large ice packs placed below it. River spent the majority of the day laying on it, with little encouragement needed from us.
What a day. Not looking to ever repeat it.
Hang in there. We southerners are able to slowly acclimate to it as the summer progresses. Plus we have A/C!
ReplyDeleteHeat wave is almost over for us.
ReplyDeleteRan the fans all last night. It was a cool 71 degrees everywhere in the house at 8am. What relief! Closed up the house. Fell asleep on the couch.
Woke up at 11:30am. 79 degrees upstairs and downstairs. Only 77 outside. It would seem that 109 degrees yesterday did a number on our crawlspace and attic. So much heat left to dissipate. More than I anticipated. Probably should have kept the house opened up a bit longer.
No big deal. It’s supposed to get down to 61 tonight and only 83 tomorrow. We’re definitely through the worst of it. Tomorrow will feel like an arctic utopia by comparison. :)
That’s good news!
ReplyDeleteIt takes a while for the thermal load to dissipate out of the structure. Two cool nights with the fans running until dawn was not enough to get the apartment all the way back to normal.
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