Post #800110

2026-03-26 14:31 UTC

That was the style one hundred years ago and more though before ac. Some of them were screened in. Only way to escape the heat was go outside with the bugs

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@Charles_in_Charge@poa.st 2026-03-26 14:35

If go to Sacramento and look at some of the houses there built 100 years ago, you can see they all have these basements that are half in, half out of the ground. In the summer it can get up to 100 and stay there for weeks at a time, so during the hottest parts of the day people would go down and stay in the basement. In the spring, the nearby river would often flood (before they built dams and levies), so raising the homes that half story kept the majority of the house out of the water. Pumping them out with hand pumps later on must have been a bitch.

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@Diogenese_Shiplap@poa.st 2026-03-26 14:39

One of the morning duties was to use the hose to wet down the ground under the porch in the summer. As the water evaporated the ground cooled down a bit, making the porch a bit better.

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