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Hey, anyone in CO use swamp coolers for house cooling? I hear mixed results, but do see them heavily offered at places like Lowes and Big R. Trying to see if they're worth it. I fully understand that AC is superior, but a whole house AC unit is financially out of my range right now, and the portable units we have fried an outlet last year from overuse.

Hey, anyone in CO use swamp coolers for house cooling? I hear mixed results, but do see them heavily offered at places like Lowes and Big R. Trying to see if they're worth it. I fully understand that AC is superior, but a whole house AC unit is financially out of my range right now, and the portable units we have fried an outlet last year from overuse.

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Tell me about it. Wednesday we got 6 inches of snow. Schools, government, etc. all closed for the day. 75% of it was melted by noon that day. Next day it didn't even look like it had snowed

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I do remember the most insane portion of that visit was when we tried to go for a float down the river in Golden. Since it was 2020, there was still much lock-down insanity about, although it was much better in Colorado than it was on the East Coast.

But they shut down the river for floating. We planned to ignore this insanity, as fuck it, it is a river, you ain't stopping us, but we only had two innertubes, and needed to purchase two more for all of us to float. We went to the tourism shop to go buy some, but apparently, out of solidarity with the lockdown order, they stopped selling them. It was pretty fucked up, fucking floating on a river outdoors was banned? Insanity.

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I came from the Portland area a few years ago, and it shocked me how few people here didn't give 2 fucks about masks or social distancing. It was refreshing. I hate a lot of shit about CO, but outside Denver, the people are generally down to earth

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That's pretty interesting. I always really did like Portland, spent a little time there when I was younger, couch surfing with students at Reed.I always thought it was a great city, or at least it was back then, but I am sure it is a dystopian Hell-hole now.

When I went on that road trip, it started with me flying into San Francisco, to meet my good friend in the bay area. It was pretty wild, as that was a summer of particularly bad wildfires in addition to the paranoia pandemic. But it was very enlightening driving away from the Bay, how people gave less and less of a shit about masking and lock down. Cheyenne was my favorite city we hit on that trip, people straight up did not give a fuck. Great city, excellent beef, and great bars.

What made you leave Portland?

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Denver area only got like an inch or so. Guessing you're closer to the mountains. I heard some of the ski resorts got 10-20 inches.

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I'm not in Denver, I'll say that much.