How did people in Arizona cope before air-con?
 

Heatwave in Vegas this week, apparantly Arizona gets even hotter...

How the hell did people cope in the days before air conditioning?

dry air is for pansies ;) try out humidity

shit's nasty :Oh crap

they didn't - nobody lived in Arizona before a/c was invented. same with Vegas.

I visited Phoenix a few months ago and holy fuck that place is hot. And the natives all leave their AC's set to 80 as if that's cold. Walking 20 feet the hotel room and I was already sweating :(

Gottcha. Let's just hope that the grid can cope for years to come. The resources (power and water) that Vegas uses must be enormous.

Add to that all those SUV's and thirsty V6 engines (the taxis wait in line with their engines running to power their aircon).

I have been in Vegas for nearly a week now and have not seen a single small car, like a mini. Not one.

Now that's what I call a comprehensive answer. Thank you for enlightening me Mutt:thumbsup

Vegas has major water problems coming I hear.

And yet they continue to build more and more mega-resorts..

Coming? They have had it for years. Hell they have really had it nearly since their creation.

One thing vegas does have a lot of though is people walking, people car pooling, public transportation or forms of it like shuttles, etc. They also do encourage water savings and try to get the most out of it. Credits for no lawns and so forth.

That whole regions growth is unsustainable and will eventually tank. Within 50 years the great lakes basin(rust belt) will see it's population return and grow. People will realize that you need water to live and that there just isn't much of it in the desert. MY :2 cents: but I've also heard some rather astute long term R.E. investors say pretty much the same thing.

Yea I think it's crazy they aren't trying to curb the amount of people moving out there. Once the ice packs melt the entire country is gonna be in some shit because that's where 70% of our drinking water come from and all the water from the mid west.

Then you have the problem on the other end with the coastal cities. If the ice caps melt global sea level will rise and even the coastal cities will be in trouble and that's where most of the population lives.So really where do you buy real estate. :Oh crap

I got some, ocean front property in Arizona, from my front porch you can see the sea ~ george strait

It was the same here in Florida, it wasn't untill airconditioning that people actually decided to stay and not simply visit for the beach.

Vegas killed the eco system of the desert by sucking all the water out of it.

Heat wave this week?

Its been nice here the past couple of days. Looking at the weather channel, its not forcast to be over 106 for the next 10 days, thats nice for mid July.