Sentences with phrase «days without air conditioning»

Representatives of the Hollywood nursing home where a shocking number of people died after days without air conditioning have said they acted prudently in not evacuating the building.

There's an old Three Stooges episode that begins on a hot summer day without air conditioning (hello 1930s), and...

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Even though we can use air - conditioning to mitigate summer heat in the kitchen, being able to make cold soups without turning on a single burner is a gift on the hottest days.

The road was a lot rougher in the old days — trains and buses instead of planes, hotel rooms without air - conditioning and with bed bugs, occasional bouts with anti-Semitism.

In other words, the coolest parts of the day are getting warmer, making it harder for people — especially those without air conditioning — to recover from daytime heat exposure.

The report lists 30 cities that face increased health risks from heat waves worsened by global warming, based on a combination of four factors: average number of summer days with «oppressive» summer heat, the percentage of households without central air conditioning, ground - level ozone levels, and the percentage of households below the poverty line.

How would we cope without the domestic refrigerator; or air conditioning at work on a sweltering summer's day?

Faced with the problem of operating schools without air conditioning when temperatures soared above 90 degrees for several days in a row, district officials along the East Coast said they had little choice but to end the school day early.

In Williams v. California, for example, teachers, parents, and students from low - income communities described overcrowded schools that had to run multiple shifts each day and multiple shifts during the school year, alternating on - months and off - months for different cohorts of students cycling in and out of the building; classrooms with more than 40 students without enough desks, chairs, and textbooks for each student to have one; lack of curriculum materials, science equipment, computers, and libraries; and crumbling facilities featuring leaky ceilings and falling ceiling tiles, sometimes overrun with rodents, and lacking heat and air conditioning.

The Mercedes - Benz lithium - ion batteries that charge overnight power all the office and communications technology as well as the lighting and air conditioning, all day long and without the need for an additional generator.

Unfortunately, the air conditioning never really blew that cold; on a couple of extremely hot days, it ran full - blast on Auto the entire time we were in the car without ever delivering really cold air; the fan noise was such that we finally got fed up with it and manually decreased the fan speed — oh, and it automatically turns on the cooled seats when you crank up the air, so you have to figure out how to shut those off (via touchscreen) to keep from feeling like you wet your pants.

On its first day the California cruise ship had experienced a fire in its engine room, leaving the 3,299 passengers stranded on board 55 miles from the coastline without any electricity, air conditioning, or hot water, according to one news report.

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After four days without power, no air conditioning, telephone or cell phone service and with the temperature in the house reaching into the nineties, we decided that it was dangerous for us to remain at home.

It was a warm day and without air conditioning it was normally dreadfully hot and humid.

If one had to live on such a carbon budget with today's low levels of carbon productivity, one would be forced to choose between a 40 kilometer car ride, a day of air conditioning, buying two new T - shirts (without driving to the shop), or eating two meals.

During one 91 - degree day of the study, for example, a black topped box without air conditioning reached 129 degrees inside.

«Working with data pertaining to 7450 cardiovascular - related deaths that occurred within Budapest, Hungary, between 1995 and 2004 — where the deceased were «medico - legally autopsied» — Toro et al. looked for potential relationships between daily maximum, minimum and mean temperature, air humidity, air pressure, wind speed, global radiation and daily numbers of the heart - related deaths... scientists report and restate their primary finding numerous times throughout their paper, writing that (1) «both the maximum and the minimum daily temperatures tend to be lower when more death cases occur in a day,» (2) «on the days with four or more death cases, the daily maximum and minimum temperatures tend to be lower than on days without any cardiovascular death events,» (3) «the largest frequency of cardiovascular death cases was detected in cold and cooling weather conditions,» (4) «we found a significant negative relationship between temperature and cardiovascular mortality,» (5) «the analysis of 6 - hour change of air pressure suggests that more acute or chronic vascular death cases occur during increasing air pressure conditions (implying cold weather fronts),» (6) «we found a high frequency of cardiovascular death in cold weather,» (7) «a significant negative relationship was detected between daily maximum [and] minimum temperature [s] and the number of sudden cardiovascular death cases,» and (8) «a significant negative correlation was detected between daily mean temperature and cardiovascular mortality.»

Pros» painting season: Typically, professionals, especially the really top - of - the - line painters, aren't restricted to any particular time of year, although most don't like painting interiors on hot, humid days when drying can be a problem, especially in homes without air - conditioning.