| ▲ | alt227 11 hours ago |
| Thats crazy to me. I would never live in an area where electric power is required just to exist and not die. |
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| ▲ | ifwinterco 10 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| It's not so much the temperature per se, it's the fact modern houses are designed around AC and American houses in particular are basically giant wooden garden sheds. In a traditional house with thick brick/stone walls and large roof overhangs you'd be uncomfortable but a lot less likely to die |
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| ▲ | 27183 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | It would be smart (assuming a properly insulated and air sealed house--which to your point is uncommon in the US) to build an insulated room with a dedicated hvac zone in the center of the basement or somewhere similar that is basically your "safe room" for such a situation. Would not take much to cool it and has the advantage of being maximally distant from the exterior walls to in case you are worried about radioactive fallout ;) | | |
| ▲ | 80fj0348i 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | For most people their car would work fine, of course not everyone does drive. Sometimes cities will open "cooling centers" (school gyms, event venues, etc.) for those cases. | | |
| ▲ | 27183 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | It takes a large amount of fuel to keep a car cool (or warm) compared to a properly insulated interior room in a properly insulated house. Cars have almost no thermal insulation to speak of, just sound deadening material, and they're made of thermally conductive materials. | | |
| ▲ | 80fj0348i 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Yeah but people already own them and you can drive to somewhere else that has AC where you can hang out. |
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