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The main purpose of external weeping tile is preventing water from getting into a basement. However, these pipes can become clogged or damaged, which causes excess water to put pressure on internal walls and basement floors. Water build up inside window wells, after heavy rain or snow, can lead to leaks through basement window seams.
For example, in the range of normal temperatures, air at 68 °F (20 °C) and 50% relative humidity will become saturated if cooled to 50 °F (10 °C), its dew point, and 41 °F (5 °C) air at 80% relative humidity warmed to 68 °F (20 °C) will have a relative humidity of only 29% and feel dry.
Although most summer days are slightly humid in the Ridge and Valley, episodes of heat and high humidity can occur with heat index values > 102 °F (39 °C). Since 1981, the highest air temperature was 100.3 °F (37.9 °C) on July 22, 2011, and the highest daily average mean dew point was 72.7 °F (22.6 °C) on January 8, 2006.
On the western side of the house, there is another terrace above the second floor, [314] with stairs to Edgar Sr.'s second-floor bedroom and Edgar Jr.'s third-floor study. [ 315 ] [ 316 ] The second floor's eastern terrace, serving the guest bedroom, is the only one in the house with a canopy.
Calgary has the sunniest days year-round of Canada's 100 largest cities, with slightly over 332 days of sun; [174] it has on average 2,396 hours of sunshine annually, [174] with an average relative humidity of 55% in the winter and 45% in the summer (15:00 MST). [174]
From 1862 until the mid-1870s, Sacramento raised the level of its downtown by building reinforced brick walls on its downtown streets and filling the resulting street walls with dirt. The previous first floors of buildings became basements, with open space between the street and the building, previously the sidewalk, now at the basement level ...
The city also has several private high schools, including secular, Montessori, Catholic and Lutheran schools. St. Louis University High School – a Jesuit preparatory high school founded in 1818 – is the oldest secondary educational institution in the U.S. west of the Mississippi River. [151]
The median sale price for homes in Baltimore as of December 2022 was $209,000, up from $95,000 in 2012. [ 185 ] [ 186 ] Despite the late 2000s housing price collapse, and along with the national trends, Baltimore residents still faced slowly increasing rent, up 3% in the summer of 2010. [ 187 ]