> The Art Walk in Colonial Beach is scheduled to be up
and going by 6pm
> on Friday the 13th coinciding with the beginning of
the Potomac River
> Festival weekend.
Hope no one is superstitious because the beach has
> a lot of h…
Reminder: This
Saturday, June 14, “House About Tonight” Productions is proud to host
the first of our summer series of house concerts at Bill’s Hartwood farm
featuring “The
Culprits.”
Here is the Culprits’
website so you can learn a…
This early heat wave had us scratching our heads, 104 degrees (heat index) in June ? Anything is possible in Virginia, but this seemed really extreme. And of course, we went from being wait-listed every weekend since we opened to where did everybody go? We could hardly blame anyone, we didn’t want to be outside either. Since outside is our only income producing real estate we knew we had to act quickly.
We had heard about misting systems used in South Florida and California and thought one might be useful for us. But how did one work? Would people feel wet? Would it work in the humidity?
Turns out the technology with misting systems has become very advanced and it can bring down the temperature 15 to 30 degrees when installed properly.
Mist Cooling works by forcing water through specially designed misting nozzles to create a fog of ultra fine water droplets. A common misconception is that misting is meant to get you all wet to cool you off. Rather, the tiny droplets or fog, quickly evaporate, cooling the surrounding air. Properly designed, a mist cooling system will work with prevailing winds and air movement, and are often combined with fans to move mist or cooled air into the cooled zones. Mist cooling can reduce the temperature up to 30 degrees Fahrenheit in very dry climates. And, it can still perform quite effectively even in very humid climates, often reducing temperatures by as much as 8-10 degrees by employing fans to facilitate evaporation.
Over the weekend I was catching up on some area news articles. In particular I tried to read the chain of postings about Spotsylvania meetings related to changing 22407 and 22408 from “Fredericksburg, VA” to something else (links here, here and here)….
The Wall Street Journal is running a piece entitled “A Pint-size Problem”. Journalist Nancy Keates attempts to make the case that there’s a move by pubs and restaurants to cheat beer drinkers.Four-dollar-a-gallon gasoline may be a cause for outrage. Bu…
The guy is a complete and utter loon. Huffington Post:
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer entered the Situation Room to talk about a provocatively written book with its author. Not Scott McClellan! No, no. Pat Buchanan! Buchanan’s new book, Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World is about […]
– The city will pick up storm damage “reasonable quantities of tree debris” until 6/17- The city is going to be paving Rt3 from Gateway Blvd (Wawa) to Huntington Hills Ln (cemetery). The work should go from 9pm to 5am, so that it avoids most traffic. T…
Just a helpful reminder. RT-D:
A 37-year-old Louisa County man appeared to be struggling with a loaded shotgun when he lost control of his car during a high-speed chase with a Louisa sheriff’s deputy.
The man, whose identity has not been released, died Saturday night after his car hit an embankment on state Route 619 in Goochland […]
New AC/DC album to be Wal-Mart exclusive.
I can remember when AC/DC was too risque to be sold in some Wal-Marts.
Sigh.
