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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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The portion I'm in, yeah. you have about 2-3 months of pretty damn hot. BUT, it's generally dry. Rest of the year is comfy to downright cold. Like today was almost 70, but tomorrow will be down in the 30s

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I visited some friends in Denver in late summer/early fall 2020, it was quite nice there, climate wise, but they did mention that it snowed a week after I left. That seems insane to me.

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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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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.