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Old 06-03-2010, 03:25 PM
 
Location: WA
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You ever try to actually sleep in a hotel in downtown Manhattan? Its impossible.
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Old 06-03-2010, 03:51 PM
 
Location: Seattle
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You ever try to actually sleep in a hotel in downtown Manhattan? Its impossible.
I slept in a Chinatown tenement for a week and couldnt believe how quiet it was! Smelled like fish though.
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Old 06-04-2010, 02:28 PM
 
Location: NOVA
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Thank you!! Amen!!!!
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Old 06-04-2010, 06:09 PM
 
Location: Downtown Seattle!
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Quick question-

How come in downtown there seems to be a fleet of sirens for aid responses almost perpetually throughout the day? In every other big city I've been in including Manhattan I just don't see/hear that many.
I've been living in downtown Seattle for about three weeks and during the last week or so, I've heard about 4-5 ambulances drive through my neighborhood each day. Strange.
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Old 06-05-2010, 07:50 PM
 
Location: Seattle
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If youre downtown you can pretty much hear one in the distance at any given time. It really is strange. Does anyone have any stats comparing cities for aid calls per person or something? Or maybe its just that the stations are located around downtown so they have to travel further... Who knows.
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Old 06-10-2010, 02:45 PM
 
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Default Laugh if you must, but I just bought a portable A/C unit.

I know, I know, it's Seattle, but after last year's hot summer in my small condo, I decided not to take a chance on another heat wave. I face south, with unobstructed sun and a tightly-insulated new building. Winters are great--my electricity bill is $40-ish a month and I rarely need to run the heater. But last summer my unit was often in the high-90's, despite keeping the shades pulled down. Even a moderately warm day in the mid-70's with full sun will push my unit above comfort level.

We've got a "heat wave" forecast this weekend, with temps in the mid-70's. Woo hoo! Keep cool everyone. I know I will!
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Old 06-10-2010, 03:26 PM
 
Location: Raleigh, NC/ West Palm Beach, FL
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HA HA HA HA! HA HA HA HA!

Just kidding. I cannot blame you. What you described is very uncomfortable should a heat wave or just warm weather stick around for a few days. Preparation is the key to success. If a heat wave comes and you are enjoying your AC, you will be laughing and enjoying the cool air because you prepared for it.
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Old 06-11-2010, 09:31 AM
 
Location: Seattle
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75 degree heat wave? haha

Don't worry. As usual, the "heat wave" has been shortened to one day as we approach the weekend with "a sytem brushing by the north of us" (read: cloudy late Saturday, cloudy all day and most likely rain later Sunday.)
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Old 06-16-2010, 04:28 PM
 
Location: where you sip the tea of the breasts of the spinsters of Utica
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emptyheaded generalizations? I lived in Washington 29 years before moving, don't tell me there aren't lots of women like that there, like my sister for instance who thinks men only exist to pay their mortgage.
Oh, that's ridiculous, women want a lot more from a man than mortgage payments. They also need a man's money to go shopping for trendy clothes and shoes, and to go out to expensive restaurants.
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Old 06-19-2010, 12:53 PM
 
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Even though summer has apparently been canceled this year, I'm off to a barbecue at some friends' home. Putting on a North Face jacket for this event is just so wrong.
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