[RKDinOKC]

It is supposed to get down to 72° tonight. Woke up, it' 3:30am and it's still 90° outside.

Remember sleepless nights this warm as a kid and no A/C. Only had fans. We had a big attic fan in the hallway and each bedroom had one of those oscillating fans. Remember laying there in only pajama shorts (thinner than underwear) miserable and soaking wet in a pool sweat with that fan blowing on me.

Dad installed the attic fan. Don't remember ever using that attic fan once we got central air.

The house was built in 1960. We bought it new and it had a crawl space foundation. We had to put vent covers on in the fall to keep the pipes from freezing. Took them off in the spring. Still covered and uncovered the vents after getting central A/C, but did carpet all the wood flooring except for the kitchen and bathroom which had linoleum.

Dad tried replacement windows, but it ended up being a fiasco. They leaked. The solution was drilling holes in the bottom of the casements to let the water out. It worked for that but it also let air and bugs in.

Guess due to the storm window fiasco we never did anything else. The attic insulation you could cleary see and walk on all the joists. We did replace the front and back doors with metal doors that looked like painted wood with metal casements and long lag bolts. Think it was more for security than energy. There were several houses in the neighborhood that had gotten broken into by them kicking in the front or back door. Not that we ever had anything worth stealing besides my stereo system.