Take Your Money, Give You A Death Trap?

Is this park owner family taking money in return for supplying a heat stroke oven? A hotbox to kill you?

Outside it’s quite cool, lovely breeze, and in no way a threat. Inside, the temperature was 35degrees C (95F) by 10.30AM and has been steadily climbing all day.

It is now 103 F. Inside, that’s in the shade 3.30PM..

Cool outside. Kill you dead inside.

Later in the afternoon like this the sun hits the full side of the western thin tin, after hitting the eastern thin tin then as well as the thin tin roof all day. Absolutely bet a heart attack that there’s no insulation in this place. At best, a bit of sarking, which does nothing – but that might be too much of an “expense” and too “considerate” for the tenant even so.

There’s also a window on the western side. I have it covered with heat insulation, but the heat comes straight through the walls anyway. Its now 4PM. Look at the temperature.

45 C. That’s 113 degrees Farenheit.

Yes, of course every window is open. The breeze doesn’t make it inside, however, due to air pressure and the tiny size of the useless windows. And in any case, the heat compounds quicker than any air might be displaced or cooled.

It’s a death trap.

“Get an air conditioner” the family would say, I expect. But that’s dodging responsibility. No place should heat up like this on its own, in its own natural state.

And it’s illogical. It’s antithetical. It’s counter-industry deceit to say that’s the solution, because to ‘live’ in one of these kennels, or garden sheds without the garden, is to be stuck at a low income level such that a) you can’t afford the size of the air conditioner that is industrially powerful enough to overcome the compounding heat; and b) can’t afford the power bill to run it. If you could afford those costs, you could afford to live in a proper place that didn’t heat up dangerously in its natural state.

And anyway, imagine if I said to the kid ‘manager’ that I wanted to get an air conditioner. Do you think he’d allow it? No fucking way.

It’s fine for the site owners to have an air conditioner and ruin my peace and comfort. Not fine for me to have the same lawless privelege.

Lovely family.

4.30PM.

People die in the outback desert at these temperatures. I am inside the family’s rental “cabin” (deceitful name for this), in the shade, cool breeze outside, two fans going and all the windows open. Look at that temperature.

Paying for a death trap.