Hell. Yes. Live in New Jersey. Hurricanes and Tropical storm knock down powerlines in summer whe had have several days without power due to storms(longest was 9 days after Hurricane Sandy). Bagged ice was life saver
Most homes have ice makers in their refrigerators and get ice through the door. The only time I've ever bought bagged ice is when I've gone to soccer tournaments, had a party, or went camping. Also, that "air conditioning" unit was what we call a room air conditioner, or a window mount air conditioner. Most homes around my area have "central air" which is whole home air conditioning where the cool air comes through our heating ductwork.
I usually don't get ice because I want more pop, but it kills me that fast food restaurants train employees to fill the cup with so much ice that the drink itself is only about half of the volume.
As a Michigander, i support this message. You know live in Michigan when the wind chill will get to -25 and the heat index to 103. Both seasons are humid. Cheers from up North
@@abelvegaflores7815 What kind of bugs do you guys have down in Louisiana that they still get in through screens? They're specifically designed to keep bugs out, so I'm wondering what bugs you have that are small enough to get in through those miniscule pinhole sized holes.
A heat wave in Europe was killing hundreds of Europeans a day. I calculated the temperature into Fahrenheit and it was 88 degrees. That's early morning in August here in Texas!
One big issue in many countries in Europe is that houses weren't built for so much heat outside. It wasn't that hot for so much time in the past. Depending on the country the houses just turn into ovens with higher thermal sensation, specially with high humidity.
Make friends with an EMT or Fire department person. To keep the ambulances stocked they have crazy good ice machines and will give away bags of the stuff if you ask since they always have more than they need. They produce more than they need just incase they need more.
Even more so, if you think you're likely to lose power for an extended period of time (e.g. you're on the Florida coast and here comes a hurricane), DRY ICE. You need to know how to handle it (there are some hazards and risks that come with it, but if you have a freezer chest, a layer of bagged ice, topped by a layer of dry ice, can possibly keep your food frozen for nearly a week.
It's ironic that here in the states, where everybody and their brother has AC in their tool shed, it's the Brits who don't have it at all, who call it "air CON," like there's a unit in every room and on most bicycles.
For the record, most homes don't have window air conditioning units, it's usually near your furnace and uses the same air duct system as the heat (because only very old homes in the US use radiators), so it's usually much more quiet than what Lawrence showed and it doesn't block a window or draw attention.
I think that depends on where you live. The apartment building next door to me and most duplexes for two blocks down have window units. I finally got rid of mine a few years ago for a ductless air system. In my one bedroom, I have one in the living room and one in the bedroom. Newer buildings-yes, but L.A. has plenty of old buildings with window air.
I'm in a tiny house in SW Oklahoma and have a regular, although small a/c & my mom who lives next door in a "regular sized" house, has a regular big sized a/c; it would be both miserable and dangerous to live here in the summer without having an air conditioner 😳
In the Chicago area, newer homes would have central air conditioning. Older homes and apartment buildings would have window units. They were not ideal (read inefficient, loud, not well sealed, etc), but made the heat tolerable, if you lived and slept in the one room.
@@maryjowinters3145 Growing up in So Cal, we had one window unit in the kitchen. We used to sleep outside in the summer. We didn't get central until 2000.
We lived in England for awhile when I was very young. I can remember my mother talking about a heat wave while we were there, temps in the 80s and people dying in the streets from heat. I live in south Texas now and 80 degrees is a typical Christmas day.
A ceiling fan is also a big energy saver as you can set your AC 5 or 6 degrees warmer and just turn the ceiling fan on. The AC doesn't have to work nearly as hard to keep the temperature pleasant.
I do love my ceiling fan. My daughter bought it for us last Christmas. My Christmas surprise was finally getting out of the Covid unit and coming home to find it already installed. A year later and still use it all the time.
I just bought a house and we made sure to buy a ceiling fan for every bedroom and the living room. Ceiling fans are just so much more efficient than a box fan.
We also have ice makers in our freezers. In the hot and humid summers of Alabama, mine is constantly dropping ice. When it broke, another was installed the same day!
Living in southern Arizona, in the Sonoran Desert, air conditioning isn't just a luxury its a necessity. Summertime heat here is brutal. There are news stories nearly every year about elderly people living on their own dying in their homes after their electricity is off for missed payments, and they pass away in the heat. Payments missed by the way because of the enormous amount of electricity an air conditioner can use. And yes, summer nights are the time to find people finding relief from the heat on their front porches. And yes, getting hammered can be part of it, but remembering my childhood years sitting on the porch was mostly about socializing with neighbors strolling by, catching up on neighborhood news and gossip, and having extended family drop by. Watermelon...we ate a LOT of watermelon on the porch.
fyi it's illegal for an electric or gas company to disconnect services for non-payment during extreme temperatures or weather.... im from Texas and worked at a elec&gas co
@@6gunbeaufordiii514 Turning off utilities in parts of Arizona does happen -- I think it's usually in error but before it's remedied, an elderly person has died from heatstroke. It has happened in Phoenix and surrounding cities in the valley.
@@Elaine8492 probably what happens is they are disconnected on a day that doesn't have extreme heat or cold and then a day or 2 or week goes by and a heat wave or cold front comes in but they still havent paid the past due yet so they're still disconnected and then they die. I know it's tragic, but i just wanted to chime in saying elec&gas companies are not going to intentionally put lives at risk. I know from experience
I live in the coastal North East. We don't get the extreme numbers but an 88 degree day with 100% humidity is far worse than 110 degree dry heat. Dehydration and heat stroke are very common in the summer months in NY when people over heat and don't hydrate.
OK, so in the South, there are tiers of ice. In fact, if you will look up the “It’s A Southern Thing”, Matt did a review of ice. Here, it’s so damn hot that we have developed a cottage ice industry catering to the different social situations that require specific kinds of ice. It must be crunchy. It must be robust enough to last through your Coke without watering it down, but it must also be tender enough for MeeMaw to crunch it with her gums (that is world class entertainment, right there). Here, ice is not a convenience. It is a necessity of life. There are, I kid you not, roadside convenience stores with signs out that say “We Have The Good Ice”…
The longest I ever went without ice was a year in Afghanistan, I absolutely hate drinking without ice. My ex was from Colorado and she would always drink almost room temperature soda, yuck! I can imagine my poor old grandmother chumping on ice and her dentures flying everywhere!! Btw Europeans don't use ice that much, I lived in London for 2 years, Italy for 6 and travelled all over Europe and getting more than 5 cubes with a soda... Good luck!
See, this is why, even though we have a nice (and expensive) ice machine in the teacher breakroom, I get my key, go all the way down to the cafeteria, and let myself in to get a pitcher of "the good ice" from the machine there. I shove it into my little classroom refrigerator, where it'll last me a coupla days. Gotta have "the good ice".
The front porch is a sacred place to us southerners. Particularly porch swings and rocking chairs. It’s THE spot. It’s where we sit and shell peas with grandma, where we listen to grandpas tall tales about fishing and hunting, it’s where we wave at neighbors that pass by, where we sit to watch our kids play in the yard, and where life lessons are learned by soaking in all the wisdom of our parents and grandparents. It’s not just a part of the house, it’s a part of our lifestyle. 😊
My great aunt had a screened in porch with a swing. we kids loved. A tornado damaged the house to where it had to be torn down this month. So many memories 😢
Here in Arizona it's illegal to not have air conditioning in homes. I'm assuming many other places in US have the same law. This past summer we had 6 days in a row over 115 F (46.1 C)
On porches without a roof/canopy we use "gliders". They're basically a swing bench with legs attached to rails that allow you to "glide" back and forth. IMHO, the best porch swings and gliders are made by the Pennsylvania Dutch. They're always sturdy and built to last. Park your butt on one of those with a Mason Jar filled with sweet tea and ice, and you will have the quintessential American front porch experience.
My refrigerator freezer (I live in a suburb NW of Dallas) has an icemaker that dispenses from the door, and the freezer reservoir willl hold up to about 5 lbs of ice at once. We use ice in our drinks all day, even in winter. (Well, maybe not LAST winter.) Refrigerators with ice dispensers on the door are de rigueur in the American south. I'm pretty sure they're common all over America.
Brits love their tea and hot drinks. I never got the why of it until I visited England in the winter. A cuppa once you get out of the weather is AMAZING and warms you right up. That's how we feel about iced drinks. When you live somewhere that is hot most of the time the last thing you want is to drink something hot or room temperature when you can drink something ice cold and refreshing. Iced drinks help make the weather bearable. Unfortunately we're used to it and use ice in the winter too 😂. It's not a huge effort here. Most refrigerators now have a built in ice maker so you just hold your glass against a lever and ice falls in your glass. Usually next to it is an ice water dispenser. The refrigerators even have water filters that you replace a couple times a year.
They can heat rooms in winter too. Thats what that switch on the base does. Changes the rotation of the blades and pushes air up instead of down. Causing the room temp to go up.
We have ceiling fans, and central air. The ceiling fans are on year round. We have them in 6 room. I like them better on the 'winter' setting because it doesn't push the air right down on you, it pushes it to the edges of the room. It's too cold when it's blowing right on me, so we keep ours on the winter setting year round. It works well with the furnace and air conditioner.
Lawrence is living in the 1960's. Most people don't use ice trays anymore. The refrigerator makes ice automatically now and has a dispenser right in the front of the fridge that dispenses ice right into your glass.
I'm in Atlanta it gets over 100f here in the summer a/c is a must, we have central a/c and a window unit in the bedroom. My grandparents never had a/c or central heat, I stayed there in the summer it sucked badly.
Air conditioning comes in all forms. He mentioned the window A/C units. Then you have the Central air system built into the home with the a/c unit outside or if you live in the southwest we use swamp coolers. Not everyone uses swamp coolers in the southwest but a lot more common since it can only work in dry climates.
Bagged ice is very easy to get, they are at most gas stations, convenience stores, and grocery stores. Mostly used for parties and large gatherings...but some people just buy for personal uses like chewing the ice.
Also for camping, hunting, or fishing trips. Toss some bagged ice in a cooler to keep your beverages and refrigerated foods cool. In more rural areas, people need coolers filled with bagged ice to transport frozen or refrigerated foods from a grocery store during the summer.
@@xdizzle0460 Might wanna get a whole house water filter/softener, or a better one if you do have one. I have well water as well and a water filter/softener and it doesnt taste like iron or metallic. You can tell the difference between it and city tap water, but it isnt metallic in taste.
@@ShinoNC I have a really nice whole house water softner and filter but theres gotta be years worth of mineral deposits in my pipes. Ive been renovating this house and the basement is stripped bare so i have access to all the pipes just havent gotten around to changing them yet. Cost of the job doubled the past year. ive done tons of work on the rest of the house so ill get to it soon im sure
I am born and raised in Arizona and I can promise you that cracking a window during the summer months in most areas of the state would definitely not be a good idea as the temperature regularly gets into the 110-115 degree range. Couple that with our monsoon storms and you'll seriously be thrilled to have a/c, ceiling fans and black out curtains lol! The rest of the year it's about as perfect as you can get weather wise. Plus we have everything from deserts to dense forests and even the smallest ancient rainforest. There's so much to see and experience here, I've lived here just about all my life and I'm still in awe over this States stunning beauty.
The trick to overhead fans is that it helps to know the starting position of the speed. There are typically 4 speeds on an overhead fan (high, medium, low, off), and they switch in descending order of speed, so if the fan is off, one pull puts it in high, 2 pulls into medium, and 3 into low. If you're in medium and you want high, that's 3 pulls (low > off > high). If you don't know what speed the fan is on at the moment, you can pull the string every couple seconds until you notice it speeding up, which means you've gone from off to high.
Most ceiling fans only have 3 speeds and in most instances they go from low speed to high, Off is not a speed...off is off, meaning no power on to turn the blades...
When my AC broke down in July about 7 years ago, in San Antonio, TX in the daytime with all shades closed, curtains drawn and fans blowing it was an absolutely balmy 86° in my house, 74° at night! If you are elderly, an infant or overweight (plenty in San Antonio!) it can kill you and in fact does every year!!
Americans never say air con. Also, opening the window without a screen let in flying insects, which are WAY more common in the US. I spent a year in Canterbury, and whenever I saw a fly, it was slow!
Yep, it's AC. And even without opening any windows, my house is inundated with bugs. Stink bugs apparently pass through solid matter and infiltrate homes. Spiders appear from the depths of Hell. Flys, mosquitos, and earwigs spring from the walls.
Couldn't make it in Florida without my ceiling fan!! Air conditioning is an absolute necessity! But it's not in a window, it's central air. The worst is when you lose power during the summer. Omg. No air. Brutal.
@@SherriLyle80s well luckily the longest I've gone without power is 24 hours. I don't even remember which hurricane it was but that 24 hours was long! I even went into the office on a Saturday for some ot to get cooled off, recharge devices and get ice from the ice machine! But yeah some of my co workers went as long as a week.
I consider drinking room temp water a punishment. I love a glass of ice water especially on a hot Southern summer day while lounging in porch swing.!Most of us Americans nowadays have refrigerators that make ice. Mine has ice and water dispenser so I can choose either cube or crushed.
There are wall remotes for the fans with a transmitter in the base of the ceiling fan that operate both the light AND the fan so, no need to pull strings.
Hilarious. As I watch this in winter, in my Texas bedroom with the “ceiling fan” spinning. The only time I turn it off is to dust it. Ha ha ha. String pull speed settings: 1-high, 2-medium, 3-low, 4-off. Also in Texas I’m pretty certain all homes built in cities - not rural farms -after the 1980’s Required air conditioning for code. The heat and humidity in the summers averaging 100+ degrees Fahrenheit kills people by heat stroke every year. With with the bugs and various other critters that will invite themselves in and bite you & can cause all kinds of illnesses in if you happen to be fool enough to open a window without a screen it is just not a good idea not to have it.
I think a lot of people really use central heating and air. Its a unit that sits outside and pushes heat and or air in your house through vents that’s in your floor or ceiling and there in ever room and some have two,three,or more. Some people do use the one that goes in the window. Most new homes comes with the central units.
In Birmingham, AL the average heat index (Temp feel combo of temp and humidity)for July is 110.7 (Average 91 deg and 72% humidity) we had heat index just shy of 120 in 2021....so you cannot just crack a window.
I live in Phoenix, Arizona. Summers are typically 118 degrees (47.77 Celsius). You can't just "open up a window". People literally DIE without air conditioning and not the tiny ones that fits in a window. I'm talking about central air conditioning that cools off the entire house or apartment. I have seen birds literally fall out of the sky, dead birds on the side walk. I'm not exaggerating. Those of you who live in Arizona know what I'm talking about. The extreme heat can last months on end. Even when it's nighttime the extreme heat is still there. When you're outside and you inhale, you feel like you are breathing in heat from an oven. So yes, air conditioning is absolute.
Yup been in Az since I was a kid and I get cold easily but you never get use to the heat. Pisses you off every time you walk outside and sun burning your skin lol
You should visit the southeast sometime. The desert has heat but from central Texas to the Atlantic, we have the same heat, plus extreme humidity. The humidity makes it exponentially worse. I worked at a restaurant about 10 years ago, and one day in the summer, a couple from New Mexico came in, and mentioned they could not believe how much more extreme the heat is here in Arkansas compared to new mexico, and it only gets worse the further south east you go.
That's exactly how I describe the heat I experienced whenever we were driving through and made a pit stop in Arizona. Being a Native Texan you always hear the humidity makers it worse... Yes you start melting as soon as you step outside but it's not painful like breathing in that dry extreme heat.
I've lived in AZ and I've ever seen a bird 'die' from the heat or fall from the sky. The only birds that I've seen fall from the sky are ones i take during quail and dove season and for that i use a shotgun.
@cjpreach I was waiting for someone to mention the word "dehumidifier" If you don't have central A/C to pull the humidity out of the house...you would have MOLD growth everywhere. The moisture level would be so bad the walls would sweat. True in Florida.
We no longer have a need for ice cube trays. Our freezers have automatic ice maker's the you can get from a pump on the outside of the freezer door along with cold water 😳
We have them in Texas, too. You pay per 0.5kg and choose how much you want. It can dispense ~10kg+ at a time. It is more convenient when the 5 or 10kg bags aren't enough.
Also, I and many others have invested in having a portable 🧊 maker. They're the size of a bread maker. You just fill the réservoir and they make bullet-shaped ice cubes in 7-8 mins. Much faster than the built‐in ice maker in the freezer and you get to add whatever water you prefer to drink. Not everyone likes to drink the water from the tap. Even if filtered.
In North Carolina air conditioning and ice makers are a necessity, but the porch swing is something we have is only used in the spring. You wouldn't want to be sitting outside in the summer heat
I’ve always had a porch swing. Used to hold my babies and swing to calm them to sleep. They are wonderful. We do like our outdoor spaces - decks, porches, and patios
Ice is common for sure. Most of us make our own ice in trays, or the fridge has a maker. Same as you, bags of ice are predominantly for parties. We also use them during power outages for those of use who experience severe storms
You can see how the US being a hotter place makes all the difference. The US has porches to hang out on on hot days before Air conditioning. We have ice in our drinks because who wants a hot drink on a 90° day?
I live outside of Houston Tx. I've lived in many different areas of the US and ceiling fan is a must have. Not for cool air, I absolutely cannot stand stagnant, non moving air inside. My ceiling fans never get turned off except their once a week cleaning.
Window units (AC) are more a northern item. In the south it's central heat and air which means whole house not idividual rooms. Also if we don't have a porch swing, we have rocking chairs. We love our Ice. Our last fridge purchase was because of the max ice unit in it. I love scooping all the ice I want no matter what.
We like ice so much in the US that we have several types that won’t water down your drinks! We have stones that you put in the freezer, and also little plastic shapes filled with water that you freeze and plop in your drink with no watering-down capability. Now granted, both of these are totally uncommon and most people just use normal ice, but they are a thing! We also often have ice makers built in to our fridges! A lot of American homes have a water line that runs to the fridge to dispense cold water right out of the door along with ice, or sometimes just an ice tray that self-fills in the freezer. Personally I don’t mind lukewarm beverages, but there are some times that you just really need your drink to be cold, especially when the weather is blistering hot as it so often is the entire midwestern summer. Love these reactions!
As an American living in Texas who works out side for like 9 months out of the year I buy bagged ice daily that I keep in a cooler in the back seat of my truck. Sometimes twice a day during the hight of the summer
What most ppl do t know about ceiling fans is rhat they dont just cool rooms. They can also HEAT rooms. Ppl dont realize theres a switch on the base of the ceiling fan. It controls the direction the blades spin. Clockwise rotation pushes air down cooling the room. Counter clockwise rotation pushes air UPWARD and heats the room a few degrees. Even a lot of Americans dont know this lol. Ceiling fans are better than AC and box fans. They have more use.
The popularity of air-con in the USA is dependent on where in the USA you are relating to how hot the summer gets. The bagged ice is used for parties or filling coolers for the day.
When I was in college, I did a study abroad in the UK at Lancaster University in Lancaster, England. There was a KFC in town and I would occasionally go there but I usually would get literally 2 ice cubes in my coke. Being American, I really prefer ice cold coke. One day I ordered and asked if they could add some extra ice to my drink (before they made it). They gave me 3-4 ice cubes and they were tiny ;-)
Right. In America, people usually expect to get at least 100-150 gm of 🧊 per cup. Or about ⅓ of your cup. We really do not like drinks at room temperature. And some will ask for extra ice (a full cup) priorr to dispensing the drink or lite 🧊. That's more like
In Phoenix (and surrounding cities in the valley) Arizona it reaches in upwards of 110F every summer. Many days reach 115-120F so bagged ice and home central air conditioning is essential -- necessary even.
I have a nice home in Phoenix AZ.. we have overhead ceiling fans in almost every room.. including 2 on the patio.. total 8 fans. The ones in video are older style that my in-laws had.. I'm a 6 ft tall mom/ grandma and I hated them because the pull chain was always hanging in my face and I feared hitting the fan. But here in hot AZ we really need the fans. Of course we have air conditioning.. we couldn't survive without it.
Bees and Millie may not realize that you frequently have temperatures that approach and sometimes exceed 50 degrees C (122 F), and that 40 degrees C (104 F) would be a pleasant summer day.
I live in Arkansas and it gets really hot and humid here. Overhead fans are a must to help keep your house cool. They work great with air conditioning which you need. When we sit outside in the summer, it's nice to have a porch swing. Most people do have porches. They are wonderful. We have to have ice to keep cool in our hot summer temps and we drink iced tea. Some people drink iced coffee too. I have seen temperatures here go up over 100 degrees Fahrenheit with high humidity.
Most bathroom fans in houses work on a switch not a chain. Some overhead fans in rooms have remote controls & don’t use a chain. Desert states have summer temperatures as high as 120°F. Eastern part of U.S. is very humid during summer & air conditioning helps with that. Window air conditioners are used in houses without central air conditioning. Older houses may have porch swings & used to be very popular. Newer houses may or may not have one on the front or back porch. Bagged iced is used for parties or to put in coolers to take to sporting events, traveling, or camping. Most refrigerators have icemakers or have ice cube trays. Most gas stations & grocery stores have a freezer full of bags of ice.
10:45- wow can't even get that right🤦 the beers go in the bucket first and the ice over it after. There's a story: A college professor used to start the first day of class with an icebreaker every term to pick seating for students. The students would stand and he'd bring out a big clear bucket and a backpack of various sized balls, a bag of sand and placed them on the desk. First he'd take out a basketball and put it in the bucket, at which point he turned to the class and said "take a seat if you think this bucket is full." Next he took out several baseballs and added those before asking again if they thought it was now full to take a seat (followed by golf balls and then marbles, ending with the bag of sand.) By now everyone agreed that it was full and had taken a seat, so after finishing the seating chart for the term he'd declare that everyone was incorrect and open a small refrigerator under his desk and take out 2 cans of beer. "This bucket is your life. The basketball represents your body and health, eating sleeping etc and they are the most essential things in life. The baseballs are things like your career and bills, close family, and if you have one your significant other; they are still extremely important and you can make space for them, but if they were put in before the basketball there wouldn't be enough room and the bucket would spill out. The golf balls are good coworkers and friends, the marbles are acquaintances and the sand is day to day issues of minor inconvenience. In life, always remember to think about the most important things first, or your bucket will overflow and life will become a mess." He then opens up both cans of beer and pours them in; "However never forget that no matter how full your own bucket may feel at times; there's always room to squeeze in a couple beers with someone. Class dismissed."
I live in Southwest Missouri and I've never been able to afford air conditioning until very recently when we put one in Mom's bedroom because the heat kept making her sick. We open all the windows (screens to keep out bugs and keep in the cats are a must) and put fans in them to draw in fresh cool air and place fans around the house. We used to have a "swamp cooler" when I was a kid. It was a huge fan with a place you can fill with cool water so it would blow cool air. When the heat got way too unbearable we would go to the store or the library to cool off.
Come to America you might love living here. I always hear the UK gets a lot of rain and doesn't get a lot of sun it's damp a lot if true I couldn't imagine that. Have a great Christmas and New Year. You look like a great couple and seem so nice have a great day!
We used to have bagged ice to keep groceries or drinks cool. The problem was you always had a watery mess when all that ice melted and got all over what you are trying to cool. Now, they sell Dry Ice which is actually frozen carbon dioxide. With this stuff, when it melts, it turns immediately to a colorless gas and there is no mess to clean up, later.
RE: Porch Swings.........those are truly a throwback to a bygone era. Before the advent of Air Conditioning . When the heat got so bad people would congregate on their porches after an evening dinner of hot cooking / hot stoves, to get a breeze to refresh themselves
We have free standing porch swings, too. We had one of those when I was a kid. They were relatively new at the time, but they're pretty common now. But those are nice because you can put them anywhere in your yard. We had ours by our campfire.
I visited Birmingham in July of 2014. I was surprised that there was no air conditioning. There was also no mesh covering the windows. They kept their windows open all the time. In the 2 weeks I was there, the temperature didn't rise above 70°F. There were days that I even had to wear a jacket. In South Florida, we would kill for 70° in the middle of summer. We also need the screens to keep the lizards and bugs out. In Birmingham, I never saw a lizard. Not one. I saw one spider on the first day. (I killed it right away.) But, it was a critter-free vacation. No mosquitoes! No roaches, even after a massive rainstorm.
Restaurants mainly do ice to keep costs down. More Ice means less product. Even if you get a refill it’ll either amount to the actually cup or still be less than the actual size all together. I don’t use ice unless I’ve got a drink that’s not cold.
Growing up in Haysville, KS in the 70's we didn't have an AC, we opened the windows & set a box fan in it, in the 80's we got our 1st window AC unit, now days most places have central heat & air that blows through entire house by vents in each room.
Overhead fans circulate the air in the entire room. Especially helpful if one has high ceilings. They are very pleasant and out of the way. I have one on my porch. Perfect for covered/ screened porches.
In the old days before air conditioning, in the summer people slept on those porches. In the South where it's 90+ with humidity into 75+ humidity (making in feel like 100 degrees +) there were sleeping porches.
I spent a summer in Ipswich on the southeast coast of England. Not one window had a screen so we made bug catchers with jars of sugar water placed on the windowsill. I do not remember any pesky insects in the house during that summer. I think we had some consecutive warm days in the 70's F and everyone was suffering. We loved it!
The window air conditioning system that he's showing in this video is very rare and America it's usually installed on the top of the roof of the house and it shoots through the entire home but there are some like that if you have like an outdoor patio and you want to insulate it so you throw that in there but normally it's a fully installed air conditioning system that comes from the roof and flows through the entire house even the garage
bagged ice is not just for parties, but also going camping or taking an ice chest with cold drinks to the beach or park. Camping to keep your perishable food cold / from spoiling and drinks like sodas or beer cold. An ice chest is a insulated chest used for keeping food / drinks cold.
Regarding overhead fans: most have a switch. One setting is for winter & it blows the warm air down. (Heat rises.) The other setting directs the heat up, thereby cooling the room. And you can get a fob for the pull chain which will indicate Off, Low, Med & High.
It really depends on where you live. In the Pacific NW the homes don’t have air conditioning, many SW homes have swamp coolers, and places that are hot typically don’t have window coolers except for small older homes
A ceiling fan that has to have a string was an afterthought to the house. A ceiling fan needs two power sources from the wall if it is a fan and a light in order to be switched from the wall. A ceiling fan with a string only has one power supply to the fan itself.
I'm in the Northwest, on the Washington coast almost at the Canadian border. Air conditioning in homes is not unusual here, but also not common. Very mild climate, pretty similar to yours. My porch has gliders, not porch swings... but I love front porch culture.
Most newer ceiling fans now have remote controls to control speed, direction and the light. Never lived in a home with a window AC, always central which is a lot quieter (unless the room is next to the outside compressor).
America loves their ice cubes and we even make them ourselves with icecube trays. We use it in the winter and put it in our pets water. We buy it by the bag and most stores carry it year round.
Yeah. A/C is vital where I live. In May, the temperature goes above 90F/32.2, hits 107F/41.7C in July, and finally drops below 90F/32.2C in mid October.
Most homes have air conditioning with vents blowing cold air instead of window units. We use air starting in May until beginning of October. Eastern Washington is desert. We have Columbia River flowing through our city and does help cooling air.
Several of these items are very regional. I grew up in WA state near Seattle and most homes do not have air-con (A/C) or ceiling fans especially in older homes. The Western WA climate is similar to the UK. But when we moved to the South (Nashville TN) It is mandatory to have A/C and ceiling fans because it is so humid and hot in the summer.
Love it. Just watched the winter items video and went right to this one, but the only *common* items are fans, a/c, and bagged ice. Far more important than the porch swing is the screened porch (or balcony) where you can be outside and still escape the mosquitos, and the "glamming mattress" I've never heard of, but I don't like camping so much.
There are plenty of people who go camping in tents with no blow up mattress. Some people though have inflatable ones that are the size of a bed mattress. I would say city people who don't wish to camp in the traditional sense go "glamping" rather than camping. I as a Boy Scout and Assistant Scoutmaster went camping without mattresses often. Even slept in shelters made from natural forage material in the middle of winter.
In New England, people who live in apartment buildings and old "three decker" houses (in other words, not rich people) still use them. In fact, I've never been anywhere they are not used.
I very much recommend camping in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, August or September is the best time to go. It's worth saying, too, not all Americans do "glamping". I only bring what I can carry in a backpack, but, I do long-distance treks with my gear so it definitely makes sense to not tote an air mattress down 100+ miles of trail.
I'm American, and I JUST THIS WEEK I discovered for the very first time that some fast food places, like McDonalds, sell bagged ice (and for really cheap)!!! It's not on the menu or anything, but apparently you can even order it using the drive-through.
I was born and raised in New Orleans Louisiana and before they had the ceiling fans and air condition they had attic fans installed and what they would do is you would open up the windows turn on the attic fan all the heat from the attic fan would go out through the vents at the roof and all the cool air surrounding the area would come in through the windows indoors because of course we have screens on them and you would be nice and comfortable… And of course we grew up on the front porch drink and sweet tea Family and friends… One thing about a southerner they’ll always feed you and give you drinks with ice we love our ice
In the US, the default is ice in drinks. Rather than asking for ice, you'd have to ask for no ice if you don't want it.
Hell. Yes.
Live in New Jersey. Hurricanes and Tropical storm knock down powerlines in summer whe had have several days without power due to storms(longest was 9 days after Hurricane Sandy). Bagged ice was life saver
Most homes have ice makers in their refrigerators and get ice through the door. The only time I've ever bought bagged ice is when I've gone to soccer tournaments, had a party, or went camping.
Also, that "air conditioning" unit was what we call a room air conditioner, or a window mount air conditioner. Most homes around my area have "central air" which is whole home air conditioning where the cool air comes through our heating ductwork.
I usually don't get ice because I want more pop, but it kills me that fast food restaurants train employees to fill the cup with so much ice that the drink itself is only about half of the volume.
@@Totenglocke42 Yeah, I usually get "light" ice or sometimes no ice when I am ordering from a drive thru.
@@Totenglocke42 well the drink sizes in the U.S. are huge, so you’re still getting more soda than people in any other country.
You will not crack a window during a Louisiana summer. Heat, humidity and creatures will invite themselves in. Merry Christmas 🎄
Do people not have screens on their windows in Louisiana?
@@brandonb.5304 they will still get in
As a Michigander, i support this message. You know live in Michigan when the wind chill will get to -25 and the heat index to 103. Both seasons are humid. Cheers from up North
@@abelvegaflores7815 What kind of bugs do you guys have down in Louisiana that they still get in through screens? They're specifically designed to keep bugs out, so I'm wondering what bugs you have that are small enough to get in through those miniscule pinhole sized holes.
We do but not everyone has it as a standard. Ac is standard. With heat around 100 and humidity at 90% 24/7. We manage lol
A heat wave in Europe was killing hundreds of Europeans a day. I calculated the temperature into Fahrenheit and it was 88 degrees. That's early morning in August here in Texas!
We usually don't have an AC in Europe.
A fine summer evening here in Arizona. Weak.
December in FL
One big issue in many countries in Europe is that houses weren't built for so much heat outside. It wasn't that hot for so much time in the past.
Depending on the country the houses just turn into ovens with higher thermal sensation, specially with high humidity.
But humidity is a game changer. 110 in Texas with 50% is much more comfortable then NY at 95 with 98%.
Bagged ice can be an absolute LIFESAVER especially if the power goes out to keep critical foods cool or yourself in a heat wave.
So True .
I live in a hurricane zone. FEMA passes out bags of ice as part of emergency disaster relief.
Just like overhead fans can help circulate hot air in the winter.
Make friends with an EMT or Fire department person. To keep the ambulances stocked they have crazy good ice machines and will give away bags of the stuff if you ask since they always have more than they need. They produce more than they need just incase they need more.
Even more so, if you think you're likely to lose power for an extended period of time (e.g. you're on the Florida coast and here comes a hurricane), DRY ICE. You need to know how to handle it (there are some hazards and risks that come with it, but if you have a freezer chest, a layer of bagged ice, topped by a layer of dry ice, can possibly keep your food frozen for nearly a week.
Can't imagine a Texas summer without "central air". It's supposed to be 80 degrees (F) here on Christmas at the end of the week.
It's ironic that here in the states, where everybody and their brother has AC in their tool shed, it's the Brits who don't have it at all, who call it "air CON," like there's a unit in every room and on most bicycles.
lol send some of that warmth to New Mexico. Specifically ABQ area lol.
Well I am in East Texas and it’s 42 degrees atm and low will be 33. But yes central AC is a must here most of the year.
Supposed to be 70 here in maryland on Christmas Day :)
I lived in Central Texas for 11 years. You would die without central air. My husband is from NY and very few places have central air. So weird to me.
For the record, most homes don't have window air conditioning units, it's usually near your furnace and uses the same air duct system as the heat (because only very old homes in the US use radiators), so it's usually much more quiet than what Lawrence showed and it doesn't block a window or draw attention.
I think that depends on where you live. The apartment building next door to me and most duplexes for two blocks down have window units. I finally got rid of mine a few years ago for a ductless air system.
In my one bedroom, I have one in the living room and one in the bedroom. Newer buildings-yes, but L.A. has plenty of old buildings with window air.
I'm in a tiny house in SW Oklahoma and have a regular, although small a/c & my mom who lives next door in a "regular sized" house, has a regular big sized a/c; it would be both miserable and dangerous to live here in the summer without having an air conditioner 😳
In the Chicago area, newer homes would have central air conditioning. Older homes and apartment buildings would have window units. They were not ideal (read inefficient, loud, not well sealed, etc), but made the heat tolerable, if you lived and slept in the one room.
@@maryjowinters3145 Growing up in So Cal, we had one window unit in the kitchen. We used to sleep outside in the summer. We didn't get central until 2000.
I installed window ac when my 4ton unit died. My light bill dripped 70.00 and the house was cooler than when the unit was new.
We lived in England for awhile when I was very young. I can remember my mother talking about a heat wave while we were there, temps in the 80s and people dying in the streets from heat. I live in south Texas now and 80 degrees is a typical Christmas day.
A ceiling fan is also a big energy saver as you can set your AC 5 or 6 degrees warmer and just turn the ceiling fan on. The AC doesn't have to work nearly as hard to keep the temperature pleasant.
I do love my ceiling fan. My daughter bought it for us last Christmas. My Christmas surprise was finally getting out of the Covid unit and coming home to find it already installed. A year later and still use it all the time.
I just bought a house and we made sure to buy a ceiling fan for every bedroom and the living room. Ceiling fans are just so much more efficient than a box fan.
We also have ice makers in our freezers. In the hot and humid summers of Alabama, mine is constantly dropping ice. When it broke, another was installed the same day!
We also have a lot of ice makers that dispense through the door of the refrigerator
Living in southern Arizona, in the Sonoran Desert, air conditioning isn't just a luxury its a necessity. Summertime heat here is brutal. There are news stories nearly every year about elderly people living on their own dying in their homes after their electricity is off for missed payments, and they pass away in the heat. Payments missed by the way because of the enormous amount of electricity an air conditioner can use. And yes, summer nights are the time to find people finding relief from the heat on their front porches. And yes, getting hammered can be part of it, but remembering my childhood years sitting on the porch was mostly about socializing with neighbors strolling by, catching up on neighborhood news and gossip, and having extended family drop by. Watermelon...we ate a LOT of watermelon on the porch.
Absolutely
Whenever the AC in our family’s house in Mesa went out (or the power was out) when I was growing up we’d take cold baths or showers
fyi it's illegal for an electric or gas company to disconnect services for non-payment during extreme temperatures or weather.... im from Texas and worked at a elec&gas co
@@6gunbeaufordiii514 Turning off utilities in parts of Arizona does happen -- I think it's usually in error but before it's remedied, an elderly person has died from heatstroke. It has happened in Phoenix and surrounding cities in the valley.
@@Elaine8492 probably what happens is they are disconnected on a day that doesn't have extreme heat or cold and then a day or 2 or week goes by and a heat wave or cold front comes in but they still havent paid the past due yet so they're still disconnected and then they die. I know it's tragic, but i just wanted to chime in saying elec&gas companies are not going to intentionally put lives at risk. I know from experience
I live in the coastal North East. We don't get the extreme numbers but an 88 degree day with 100% humidity is far worse than 110 degree dry heat. Dehydration and heat stroke are very common in the summer months in NY when people over heat and don't hydrate.
OK, so in the South, there are tiers of ice. In fact, if you will look up the “It’s A Southern Thing”, Matt did a review of ice. Here, it’s so damn hot that we have developed a cottage ice industry catering to the different social situations that require specific kinds of ice. It must be crunchy. It must be robust enough to last through your Coke without watering it down, but it must also be tender enough for MeeMaw to crunch it with her gums (that is world class entertainment, right there). Here, ice is not a convenience. It is a necessity of life. There are, I kid you not, roadside convenience stores with signs out that say “We Have The Good Ice”…
And "Good Ice" is hard to find, unless there's a Chick-Fil-A close by!
The longest I ever went without ice was a year in Afghanistan, I absolutely hate drinking without ice. My ex was from Colorado and she would always drink almost room temperature soda, yuck!
I can imagine my poor old grandmother chumping on ice and her dentures flying everywhere!!
Btw Europeans don't use ice that much, I lived in London for 2 years, Italy for 6 and travelled all over Europe and getting more than 5 cubes with a soda... Good luck!
See, this is why, even though we have a nice (and expensive) ice machine in the teacher breakroom, I get my key, go all the way down to the cafeteria, and let myself in to get a pitcher of "the good ice" from the machine there. I shove it into my little classroom refrigerator, where it'll last me a coupla days. Gotta have "the good ice".
Sonic has the good ice.
Church ice is the best!!
The front porch is a sacred place to us southerners. Particularly porch swings and rocking chairs. It’s THE spot. It’s where we sit and shell peas with grandma, where we listen to grandpas tall tales about fishing and hunting, it’s where we wave at neighbors that pass by, where we sit to watch our kids play in the yard, and where life lessons are learned by soaking in all the wisdom of our parents and grandparents. It’s not just a part of the house, it’s a part of our lifestyle. 😊
Watch the sunset. Watch the fireflies. Etc.
My great aunt had a screened in porch with a swing. we kids loved. A tornado damaged the house to where it had to be torn down this month. So many memories 😢
Here in Arizona it's illegal to not have air conditioning in homes. I'm assuming many other places in US have the same law. This past summer we had 6 days in a row over 115 F (46.1 C)
Only 6. ;)
Though swamp coolers aren't great in the summer.
I lived in Az (Phoenix) for a year when I first got married. I couldn’t handle the heat. 🙅🏻♀️
@@plaidpaisley5918 I have been here for 34 years.
I vividly remember one summer not too long ago when we had 21 days in a row of 100 degrees or higher. In Louisiana.
A Summer night on a porch with friends is amazing.
Ceiling fans have evolve over the years, most brand new fans come with remote control now. No more chain pulling.
On porches without a roof/canopy we use "gliders". They're basically a swing bench with legs attached to rails that allow you to "glide" back and forth. IMHO, the best porch swings and gliders are made by the Pennsylvania Dutch. They're always sturdy and built to last. Park your butt on one of those with a Mason Jar filled with sweet tea and ice, and you will have the quintessential American front porch experience.
My refrigerator freezer (I live in a suburb NW of Dallas) has an icemaker that dispenses from the door, and the freezer reservoir willl hold up to about 5 lbs of ice at once. We use ice in our drinks all day, even in winter. (Well, maybe not LAST winter.) Refrigerators with ice dispensers on the door are de rigueur in the American south. I'm pretty sure they're common all over America.
Brits love their tea and hot drinks. I never got the why of it until I visited England in the winter. A cuppa once you get out of the weather is AMAZING and warms you right up. That's how we feel about iced drinks. When you live somewhere that is hot most of the time the last thing you want is to drink something hot or room temperature when you can drink something ice cold and refreshing. Iced drinks help make the weather bearable. Unfortunately we're used to it and use ice in the winter too 😂. It's not a huge effort here. Most refrigerators now have a built in ice maker so you just hold your glass against a lever and ice falls in your glass. Usually next to it is an ice water dispenser. The refrigerators even have water filters that you replace a couple times a year.
Wrap around porches are absolutely gorgeous. There are a lot here in Texas. Lots of old farm houses had them.
Overhead fans are great for those fall or spring days where there is a really warm day and you don’t want the AC or central air to go on.
They can heat rooms in winter too. Thats what that switch on the base does. Changes the rotation of the blades and pushes air up instead of down. Causing the room temp to go up.
A lot less expensive on the electrical bill.
We have ceiling fans, and central air. The ceiling fans are on year round. We have them in 6 room. I like them better on the 'winter' setting because it doesn't push the air right down on you, it pushes it to the edges of the room. It's too cold when it's blowing right on me, so we keep ours on the winter setting year round. It works well with the furnace and air conditioner.
Lawrence is living in the 1960's. Most people don't use ice trays anymore. The refrigerator makes ice automatically now and has a dispenser right in the front of the fridge that dispenses ice right into your glass.
I'm in Atlanta it gets over 100f here in the summer a/c is a must, we have central a/c and a window unit in the bedroom. My grandparents never had a/c or central heat, I stayed there in the summer it sucked badly.
Air conditioning comes in all forms. He mentioned the window A/C units. Then you have the Central air system built into the home with the a/c unit outside or if you live in the southwest we use swamp coolers. Not everyone uses swamp coolers in the southwest but a lot more common since it can only work in dry climates.
Bagged ice is very easy to get, they are at most gas stations, convenience stores, and grocery stores.
Mostly used for parties and large gatherings...but some people just buy for personal uses like chewing the ice.
Also for camping, hunting, or fishing trips. Toss some bagged ice in a cooler to keep your beverages and refrigerated foods cool.
In more rural areas, people need coolers filled with bagged ice to transport frozen or refrigerated foods from a grocery store during the summer.
@@MichaelScheele grab one for fishing nearly everything time I go
my new home is on well water so i just buy bags bc i prefer the taste tbh. Rather not have everything i drink taste like a block of iron
@@xdizzle0460 Might wanna get a whole house water filter/softener, or a better one if you do have one. I have well water as well and a water filter/softener and it doesnt taste like iron or metallic. You can tell the difference between it and city tap water, but it isnt metallic in taste.
@@ShinoNC I have a really nice whole house water softner and filter but theres gotta be years worth of mineral deposits in my pipes. Ive been renovating this house and the basement is stripped bare so i have access to all the pipes just havent gotten around to changing them yet. Cost of the job doubled the past year. ive done tons of work on the rest of the house so ill get to it soon im sure
I am born and raised in Arizona and I can promise you that cracking a window during the summer months in most areas of the state would definitely not be a good idea as the temperature regularly gets into the 110-115 degree range. Couple that with our monsoon storms and you'll seriously be thrilled to have a/c, ceiling fans and black out curtains lol! The rest of the year it's about as perfect as you can get weather wise. Plus we have everything from deserts to dense forests and even the smallest ancient rainforest. There's so much to see and experience here, I've lived here just about all my life and I'm still in awe over this States stunning beauty.
Bagged ice also for camping and picnics.
The trick to overhead fans is that it helps to know the starting position of the speed. There are typically 4 speeds on an overhead fan (high, medium, low, off), and they switch in descending order of speed, so if the fan is off, one pull puts it in high, 2 pulls into medium, and 3 into low. If you're in medium and you want high, that's 3 pulls (low > off > high). If you don't know what speed the fan is on at the moment, you can pull the string every couple seconds until you notice it speeding up, which means you've gone from off to high.
Most ceiling fans only have 3 speeds and in most instances they go from low speed to high, Off is not a speed...off is off, meaning no power on to turn the blades...
When my AC broke down in July about 7 years ago, in San Antonio, TX in the daytime with all shades closed, curtains drawn and fans blowing it was an absolutely balmy 86° in my house, 74° at night! If you are elderly, an infant or overweight (plenty in San Antonio!) it can kill you and in fact does every year!!
Americans never say air con. Also, opening the window without a screen let in flying insects, which are WAY more common in the US. I spent a year in Canterbury, and whenever I saw a fly, it was slow!
Yep, it's AC. And even without opening any windows, my house is inundated with bugs. Stink bugs apparently pass through solid matter and infiltrate homes. Spiders appear from the depths of Hell. Flys, mosquitos, and earwigs spring from the walls.
Couldn't make it in Florida without my ceiling fan!! Air conditioning is an absolute necessity! But it's not in a window, it's central air.
The worst is when you lose power during the summer. Omg. No air. Brutal.
Or during a storm and have to wait days. 🥵
@@SherriLyle80s well luckily the longest I've gone without power is 24 hours. I don't even remember which hurricane it was but that 24 hours was long! I even went into the office on a Saturday for some ot to get cooled off, recharge devices and get ice from the ice machine! But yeah some of my co workers went as long as a week.
Effing hurricane season!!!!
I consider drinking room temp water a punishment. I love a glass of ice water especially on a hot Southern summer day while lounging in porch swing.!Most of us Americans nowadays have refrigerators that make ice. Mine has ice and water dispenser so I can choose either cube or crushed.
I love camping, especially in the mountains ⛰️ no glamping, hard core camping
There are wall remotes for the fans with a transmitter in the base of the ceiling fan that operate both the light AND the fan so, no need to pull strings.
Hilarious. As I watch this in winter, in my Texas bedroom with the “ceiling fan” spinning. The only time I turn it off is to dust it. Ha ha ha. String pull speed settings: 1-high, 2-medium, 3-low, 4-off.
Also in Texas I’m pretty certain all homes built in cities - not rural farms -after the 1980’s Required air conditioning for code. The heat and humidity in the summers averaging 100+ degrees Fahrenheit kills people by heat stroke every year. With with the bugs and various other critters that will invite themselves in and bite you & can cause all kinds of illnesses in if you happen to be fool enough to open a window without a screen it is just not a good idea not to have it.
I think a lot of people really use central heating and air. Its a unit that sits outside and pushes heat and or air in your house through vents that’s in your floor or ceiling and there in ever room and some have two,three,or more. Some people do use the one that goes in the window. Most new homes comes with the central units.
In Birmingham, AL the average heat index (Temp feel combo of temp and humidity)for July is 110.7 (Average 91 deg and 72% humidity) we had heat index just shy of 120 in 2021....so you cannot just crack a window.
A porch is called a lanai (lahn-eye) in Hawaii & it may be in front or back.
We put 'decks' out back for gatherings & such.
I live in Phoenix, Arizona. Summers are typically 118 degrees (47.77 Celsius). You can't just "open up a window". People literally DIE without air conditioning and not the tiny ones that fits in a window. I'm talking about central air conditioning that cools off the entire house or apartment. I have seen birds literally fall out of the sky, dead birds on the side walk. I'm not exaggerating. Those of you who live in Arizona know what I'm talking about. The extreme heat can last months on end. Even when it's nighttime the extreme heat is still there. When you're outside and you inhale, you feel like you are breathing in heat from an oven. So yes, air conditioning is absolute.
Yup been in Az since I was a kid and I get cold easily but you never get use to the heat. Pisses you off every time you walk outside and sun burning your skin lol
Even up here in the mountains it'll get up to 90 even 100 in the summer
You should visit the southeast sometime. The desert has heat but from central Texas to the Atlantic, we have the same heat, plus extreme humidity. The humidity makes it exponentially worse.
I worked at a restaurant about 10 years ago, and one day in the summer, a couple from New Mexico came in, and mentioned they could not believe how much more extreme the heat is here in Arkansas compared to new mexico, and it only gets worse the further south east you go.
That's exactly how I describe the heat I experienced whenever we were driving through and made a pit stop in Arizona. Being a Native Texan you always hear the humidity makers it worse... Yes you start melting as soon as you step outside but it's not painful like breathing in that dry extreme heat.
I've lived in AZ and I've ever seen a bird 'die' from the heat or fall from the sky. The only birds that I've seen fall from the sky are ones i take during quail and dove season and for that i use a shotgun.
RE: Air Conditioning - It dehumidifies the air in the building. Opening a window permits humidity into the room.
Here in Utah we have swamp coolers because we have days with almost no humidity. In fact here in Utah we have to buy humidifiers.
@cjpreach I was waiting for someone to mention the word "dehumidifier" If you don't have central A/C to pull the humidity out of the house...you would have MOLD growth everywhere. The moisture level would be so bad the walls would sweat. True in Florida.
Bagged ice can be useful for backyard barbecues to keep beverages cool without having to go back inside to the refrigerator.
You couldn't live in Memphis in the summer without ceiling fans and a/c and ice it gets in the 90s from about May all the way to Halloween
We no longer have a need for ice cube trays. Our freezers have automatic ice maker's the you can get from a pump on the outside of the freezer door along with cold water 😳
Now there’s 24/7 🧊 ice vending machines that are usually small buildings that make ice automatically and sell it in various amounts in Florida.
We have them in Texas, too. You pay per 0.5kg and choose how much you want. It can dispense ~10kg+ at a time. It is more convenient when the 5 or 10kg bags aren't enough.
Also, I and many others have invested in having a portable 🧊 maker. They're the size of a bread maker. You just fill the réservoir and they make bullet-shaped ice cubes in 7-8 mins. Much faster than the built‐in ice maker in the freezer and you get to add whatever water you prefer to drink. Not everyone likes to drink the water from the tap. Even if filtered.
In North Carolina air conditioning and ice makers are a necessity, but the porch swing is something we have is only used in the spring. You wouldn't want to be sitting outside in the summer heat
I’ve always had a porch swing. Used to hold my babies and swing to calm them to sleep. They are wonderful. We do like our outdoor spaces - decks, porches, and patios
Ice is common for sure. Most of us make our own ice in trays, or the fridge has a maker. Same as you, bags of ice are predominantly for parties. We also use them during power outages for those of use who experience severe storms
You can see how the US being a hotter place makes all the difference. The US has porches to hang out on on hot days before Air conditioning. We have ice in our drinks because who wants a hot drink on a 90° day?
Even Ice house's before AC.
We are in early April and it is 85 today.
I live outside of Houston Tx. I've lived in many different areas of the US and ceiling fan is a must have. Not for cool air, I absolutely cannot stand stagnant, non moving air inside.
My ceiling fans never get turned off except their once a week cleaning.
My family goes through a 20 pound bag (9 kilograms, I think) of ice weekly. I need my ice water!
Window units (AC) are more a northern item. In the south it's central heat and air which means whole house not idividual rooms. Also if we don't have a porch swing, we have rocking chairs. We love our Ice. Our last fridge purchase was because of the max ice unit in it. I love scooping all the ice I want no matter what.
We like ice so much in the US that we have several types that won’t water down your drinks! We have stones that you put in the freezer, and also little plastic shapes filled with water that you freeze and plop in your drink with no watering-down capability. Now granted, both of these are totally uncommon and most people just use normal ice, but they are a thing! We also often have ice makers built in to our fridges! A lot of American homes have a water line that runs to the fridge to dispense cold water right out of the door along with ice, or sometimes just an ice tray that self-fills in the freezer. Personally I don’t mind lukewarm beverages, but there are some times that you just really need your drink to be cold, especially when the weather is blistering hot as it so often is the entire midwestern summer. Love these reactions!
As an American living in Texas who works out side for like 9 months out of the year I buy bagged ice daily that I keep in a cooler in the back seat of my truck. Sometimes twice a day during the hight of the summer
My husband just bought me an ice maker for Christmas! I love it! 😁
What most ppl do t know about ceiling fans is rhat they dont just cool rooms. They can also HEAT rooms. Ppl dont realize theres a switch on the base of the ceiling fan. It controls the direction the blades spin. Clockwise rotation pushes air down cooling the room. Counter clockwise rotation pushes air UPWARD and heats the room a few degrees. Even a lot of Americans dont know this lol. Ceiling fans are better than AC and box fans. They have more use.
I was going to "like" your comment, until I read "ceiling fans are better than AC." As an overweight person, I must disagree.
@@JPMadden Or any person who doesn’t want to be hot!😛
The popularity of air-con in the USA is dependent on where in the USA you are relating to how hot the summer gets.
The bagged ice is used for parties or filling coolers for the day.
I LOVE his username, cause you guys REALLY are considered "Our Brothers & Sisters Across The Pond."
When I was in college, I did a study abroad in the UK at Lancaster University in Lancaster, England. There was a KFC in town and I would occasionally go there but I usually would get literally 2 ice cubes in my coke. Being American, I really prefer ice cold coke. One day I ordered and asked if they could add some extra ice to my drink (before they made it). They gave me 3-4 ice cubes and they were tiny ;-)
Right. In America, people usually expect to get at least 100-150 gm of 🧊 per cup. Or about ⅓ of your cup. We really do not like drinks at room temperature. And some will ask for extra ice (a full cup) priorr to dispensing the drink or lite 🧊. That's more like
In Phoenix (and surrounding cities in the valley) Arizona it reaches in upwards of 110F every summer. Many days reach 115-120F so bagged ice and home central air conditioning is essential -- necessary even.
I have a nice home in Phoenix AZ.. we have overhead ceiling fans in almost every room.. including 2 on the patio.. total 8 fans. The ones in video are older style that my in-laws had.. I'm a 6 ft tall mom/ grandma and I hated them because the pull chain was always hanging in my face and I feared hitting the fan. But here in hot AZ we really need the fans. Of course we have air conditioning.. we couldn't survive without it.
Bees and Millie may not realize that you frequently have temperatures that approach and sometimes exceed 50 degrees C (122 F), and that 40 degrees C (104 F) would be a pleasant summer day.
@@stevedietrich8936 But it’s a dry heat.😉 I prefer that heat to 95 degrees and 80 percent humidity. In the evening after sunset.
I live in Arkansas and it gets really hot and humid here. Overhead fans are a must to help keep your house cool. They work great with air conditioning which you need.
When we sit outside in the summer, it's nice to have a porch swing. Most people do have porches. They are wonderful.
We have to have ice to keep cool in our hot summer temps and we drink iced tea. Some people drink iced coffee too. I have seen temperatures here go up over 100 degrees Fahrenheit with high humidity.
Most bathroom fans in houses work on a switch not a chain. Some overhead fans in rooms have remote controls & don’t use a chain.
Desert states have summer temperatures as high as 120°F. Eastern part of U.S. is very humid during summer & air conditioning helps with that. Window air conditioners are used in houses without central air conditioning.
Older houses may have porch swings & used to be very popular. Newer houses may or may not have one on the front or back porch.
Bagged iced is used for parties or to put in coolers to take to sporting events, traveling, or camping. Most refrigerators have icemakers or have ice cube trays. Most gas stations & grocery stores have a freezer full of bags of ice.
10:45- wow can't even get that right🤦 the beers go in the bucket first and the ice over it after. There's a story: A college professor used to start the first day of class with an icebreaker every term to pick seating for students. The students would stand and he'd bring out a big clear bucket and a backpack of various sized balls, a bag of sand and placed them on the desk. First he'd take out a basketball and put it in the bucket, at which point he turned to the class and said "take a seat if you think this bucket is full." Next he took out several baseballs and added those before asking again if they thought it was now full to take a seat (followed by golf balls and then marbles, ending with the bag of sand.) By now everyone agreed that it was full and had taken a seat, so after finishing the seating chart for the term he'd declare that everyone was incorrect and open a small refrigerator under his desk and take out 2 cans of beer. "This bucket is your life. The basketball represents your body and health, eating sleeping etc and they are the most essential things in life. The baseballs are things like your career and bills, close family, and if you have one your significant other; they are still extremely important and you can make space for them, but if they were put in before the basketball there wouldn't be enough room and the bucket would spill out. The golf balls are good coworkers and friends, the marbles are acquaintances and the sand is day to day issues of minor inconvenience. In life, always remember to think about the most important things first, or your bucket will overflow and life will become a mess." He then opens up both cans of beer and pours them in; "However never forget that no matter how full your own bucket may feel at times; there's always room to squeeze in a couple beers with someone. Class dismissed."
In the US most refrigerators come with an ice maker/dispenser. Bagged ice is usually used for coolers for camping/keeping food fresh and drinks cool.
I live in Southwest Missouri and I've never been able to afford air conditioning until very recently when we put one in Mom's bedroom because the heat kept making her sick. We open all the windows (screens to keep out bugs and keep in the cats are a must) and put fans in them to draw in fresh cool air and place fans around the house. We used to have a "swamp cooler" when I was a kid. It was a huge fan with a place you can fill with cool water so it would blow cool air. When the heat got way too unbearable we would go to the store or the library to cool off.
Come to America you might love living here. I always hear the UK gets a lot of rain and doesn't get a lot of sun it's damp a lot if true I couldn't imagine that. Have a great Christmas and New Year. You look like a great couple and seem so nice have a great day!
We used to have bagged ice to keep groceries or drinks cool. The problem was you always had a watery mess when all that ice melted and got all over what you are trying to cool. Now, they sell Dry Ice which is actually frozen carbon dioxide. With this stuff, when it melts, it turns immediately to a colorless gas and there is no mess to clean up, later.
RE: Porch Swings.........those are truly a throwback to a bygone era. Before the advent of Air Conditioning . When the heat got so bad people would congregate on their porches after an evening dinner of hot cooking / hot stoves, to get a breeze to refresh themselves
We have free standing porch swings, too. We had one of those when I was a kid. They were relatively new at the time, but they're pretty common now.
But those are nice because you can put them anywhere in your yard. We had ours by our campfire.
I visited Birmingham in July of 2014. I was surprised that there was no air conditioning. There was also no mesh covering the windows. They kept their windows open all the time.
In the 2 weeks I was there, the temperature didn't rise above 70°F. There were days that I even had to wear a jacket. In South Florida, we would kill for 70° in the middle of summer.
We also need the screens to keep the lizards and bugs out. In Birmingham, I never saw a lizard. Not one. I saw one spider on the first day. (I killed it right away.) But, it was a critter-free vacation. No mosquitoes! No roaches, even after a massive rainstorm.
Restaurants mainly do ice to keep costs down. More Ice means less product. Even if you get a refill it’ll either amount to the actually cup or still be less than the actual size all together.
I don’t use ice unless I’ve got a drink that’s not cold.
I love Lost in the Pond. His humor is the perfect amount of dry self deprecation.
Overhead fans also work in the winter too. We have 11ft ceilings (100+ yr home). Warm air rises. Wood heat.
Growing up in Haysville, KS in the 70's we didn't have an AC, we opened the windows & set a box fan in it, in the 80's we got our 1st window AC unit, now days most places have central heat & air that blows through entire house by vents in each room.
My refrigerator dispenses filtered water and also dispensers ice cubes right into the glass.
There's also something called swamp coolers. They are very similar to A/C units, but they have a water reservoir for more arid regions.
Overhead fans circulate the air in the entire room. Especially helpful if one has high ceilings. They are very pleasant and out of the way. I have one on my porch. Perfect for covered/ screened porches.
Sometimes in Tennessee it's gets up to 43°c. Sometimes higher. Air conditioners are A MUST
In the old days before air conditioning, in the summer people slept on those porches. In the South where it's 90+ with humidity into 75+ humidity (making in feel like 100 degrees +) there were sleeping porches.
We have porch swings to sit on our porch and greet neighbors as they pass and listen to nature in the early morning and late evening.
I spent a summer in Ipswich on the southeast coast of England. Not one window had a screen so we made bug catchers with jars of sugar water placed on the windowsill. I do not remember any pesky insects in the house during that summer. I think we had some consecutive warm days in the 70's F and everyone was suffering. We loved it!
The window air conditioning system that he's showing in this video is very rare and America it's usually installed on the top of the roof of the house and it shoots through the entire home but there are some like that if you have like an outdoor patio and you want to insulate it so you throw that in there but normally it's a fully installed air conditioning system that comes from the roof and flows through the entire house even the garage
Come on out any day to Oregon for Camping or, Glamping, or RV-Camping. We have a farm and would enjoy having people over any time.
bagged ice is not just for parties, but also going camping or taking an ice chest with cold drinks to the beach or park. Camping to keep your perishable food cold / from spoiling and drinks like sodas or beer cold. An ice chest is a insulated chest used for keeping food / drinks cold.
Regarding overhead fans: most have a switch. One setting is for winter & it blows the warm air down. (Heat rises.) The other setting directs the heat up, thereby cooling the room. And you can get a fob for the pull chain which will indicate Off, Low, Med & High.
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It really depends on where you live. In the Pacific NW the homes don’t have air conditioning, many SW homes have swamp coolers, and places that are hot typically don’t have window coolers except for small older homes
A lot of refrigerators in America also have their own ice machines which makes it less of a hassle to get ice cubes.
Even dispensers for ice and cold water in the door in many cases.
A ceiling fan that has to have a string was an afterthought to the house. A ceiling fan needs two power sources from the wall if it is a fan and a light in order to be switched from the wall. A ceiling fan with a string only has one power supply to the fan itself.
I'm in the Northwest, on the Washington coast almost at the Canadian border. Air conditioning in homes is not unusual here, but also not common. Very mild climate, pretty similar to yours. My porch has gliders, not porch swings... but I love front porch culture.
Most newer ceiling fans now have remote controls to control speed, direction and the light. Never lived in a home with a window AC, always central which is a lot quieter (unless the room is next to the outside compressor).
America loves their ice cubes and we even make them ourselves with icecube trays. We use it in the winter and put it in our pets water. We buy it by the bag and most stores carry it year round.
Yeah. A/C is vital where I live. In May, the temperature goes above 90F/32.2, hits 107F/41.7C in July, and finally drops below 90F/32.2C in mid October.
Most homes have air conditioning with vents blowing cold air instead of window units. We use air starting in May until beginning of October. Eastern Washington is desert. We have Columbia River flowing through our city and does help cooling air.
Several of these items are very regional. I grew up in WA state near Seattle and most homes do not have air-con (A/C) or ceiling fans especially in older homes. The Western WA climate is similar to the UK. But when we moved to the South (Nashville TN) It is mandatory to have A/C and ceiling fans because it is so humid and hot in the summer.
Love it. Just watched the winter items video and went right to this one, but the only *common* items are fans, a/c, and bagged ice. Far more important than the porch swing is the screened porch (or balcony) where you can be outside and still escape the mosquitos, and the "glamming mattress" I've never heard of, but I don't like camping so much.
There are plenty of people who go camping in tents with no blow up mattress. Some people though have inflatable ones that are the size of a bed mattress. I would say city people who don't wish to camp in the traditional sense go "glamping" rather than camping. I as a Boy Scout and Assistant Scoutmaster went camping without mattresses often. Even slept in shelters made from natural forage material in the middle of winter.
Haven't seen one of those window mounted air conditioners since the 70's. Most homes have central aircon now.
In New England, people who live in apartment buildings and old "three decker" houses (in other words, not rich people) still use them. In fact, I've never been anywhere they are not used.
@@JPMadden I'm extremely rich so I wouldn't know...jk
@Rheumattica what you talkin' about Holmes?
@Rheumattica Do the math son. If I remember something from the 70's I'm all grown up.
You can do better than a mom joke. I know you can.
I very much recommend camping in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, August or September is the best time to go. It's worth saying, too, not all Americans do "glamping". I only bring what I can carry in a backpack, but, I do long-distance treks with my gear so it definitely makes sense to not tote an air mattress down 100+ miles of trail.
I'm American, and I JUST THIS WEEK I discovered for the very first time that some fast food places, like McDonalds, sell bagged ice (and for really cheap)!!!
It's not on the menu or anything, but apparently you can even order it using the drive-through.
I was born and raised in New Orleans Louisiana and before they had the ceiling fans and air condition they had attic fans installed and what they would do is you would open up the windows turn on the attic fan all the heat from the attic fan would go out through the vents at the roof and all the cool air surrounding the area would come in through the windows indoors because of course we have screens on them and you would be nice and comfortable… And of course we grew up on the front porch drink and sweet tea Family and friends… One thing about a southerner they’ll always feed you and give you drinks with ice we love our ice