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RE: Dealing with the Heat - 7/5/2007 3:28:45 PM   
popeye1250


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ORIGINAL: CrimsonMoan

it get hots anywhere. oh well off to fire up the grill and piss someone off cuz they can't have none.


LOL, Crimson, we used to call that giving the neighbors a "Scotch Lunch."
Cook some nice big steaks on the grill and let the smoke waft over to the neighbors!
Merc, lol at "so is your oven."

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RE: Dealing with the Heat - 7/5/2007 3:56:56 PM   
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Lotus, how'd you end up in Ariz. from Ohio? Job, guy?
I moved here for the weather and to get away from the high housing prices of the North East and I'm glad I did.
  

Hubby always wanted to live here.  You know, I was raisedinthe 50's- and where he goes hither ye shall ye follow. I had no other plans so I tagged along :)
 

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RE: Dealing with the Heat - 7/5/2007 4:26:36 PM   
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RE: Dealing with the Heat - 7/5/2007 4:50:14 PM   
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Julia, 109?
Are you in Arizona too?
I thought you were in S. Cal.
I didn't realize that it gets that hot there.


It easily gets that hot here in So Cal. For example when you see a temperature for San Diego it's usually the one taken at the airport. A lovely little facility right on the harbor with the breeze off the water. Drive inland a few miles and you have a 15 to 20 degree temperature differential. Today in my neck of the woods it was 93. San Diego proper was listed as 73. It's supposed to break 100 over the weekend. UGH!

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RE: Dealing with the Heat - 7/5/2007 5:41:26 PM   
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RE: Dealing with the Heat - 7/5/2007 6:47:43 PM   
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ORIGINAL: popeye1250
I thought you were in S. Cal.
I didn't realize that it gets that hot there.


       112 in my part of SoCal, Popeye, and this is fairly typical for us.  6% humidity helps.  Swamp coolers work very well here.  It's another story when the 'monsoon' heads our way.  The coolers don't work worth a damn and this turns into tornado country.  (Betcha didn't know CA gets tornados either.  Damn tourism board propaganda...)

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RE: Dealing with the Heat - 7/5/2007 6:54:36 PM   
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RE: Dealing with the Heat - 7/5/2007 8:17:53 PM   
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Status: offline 		I get a bucket and fill it with water and ice cubes and soak my feet/thighs in it. It cools me down quite a bit. I do have AC, but I hate to use it all the time, I have a thing about letting the fresh air in at least 4 hours a day.

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RE: Dealing with the Heat - 7/5/2007 8:49:04 PM   
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RE: Dealing with the Heat - 7/6/2007 7:56:45 PM   
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Status: offline 		I got up at 4:40 today to walk to start walking to the gym by 5:45. I ran, came home, got showered and dressed to get to the store and get all my errands done before noon. Costco does not open until 11, some of the things I needed were from there, so I strategically planned getting there by 11, shopping, and leaving as fast as possible. By the time I left Costco it was well over 100 degrees here, and by the time I got home I was having trouble breathing. I ate lunch and passed out for a few hours. My thermometer read over 110 in the shade, although it may have gotten hotter.

Getting over a summer cold sucks when it is so hot out. I am supposed to have lunch with one of my professors this weekend, I think it may have to be breakfast because it is going to be triple digits for as long as the forecast lasts.

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RE: Dealing with the Heat - 7/6/2007 8:23:41 PM   
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84 at the moment, with a heat index of 91....the a/c is broken, and no windowscreens.

bleh.

kitten, the melted.


as of 3 pm......my a/c is fixed.  we have COOL and the dogs are happy again....not to mention the people!

kitten..... *blisses*

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RE: Dealing with the Heat - 7/6/2007 9:17:49 PM   
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Status: offline 		We've had a lot of rain here in NY (near nyc) it's been relatively cool at night - no need for AC - hot but between 70's and 80's - humidity not too bad... yet.  i hate hot weather, it just sucks the life right out of you. 

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RE: Dealing with the Heat - 7/6/2007 9:26:29 PM   
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south texas is confused...its the middle of july and the highs hit the mid 80's...what is this global warming stuff i hear? oh its conditional global warming...ok, makes sense to me..................


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RE: Dealing with the Heat - 7/6/2007 9:29:28 PM   
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Status: offline 		We hit 110 yesterday and about 108 today plus humidity, we have a 'cooling center' down the street from me, an I have gone over there the last few days for a few hours to give my a/c a chance to recover. I actually started to drink WATER today {gasp}, too freakin hot.
 
Those with the rain and cooler temps, send that stuff west, we can use the help.  

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RE: Dealing with the Heat - 7/6/2007 9:52:55 PM   
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Status: offline 		its been in the upper 80's here for the last few  days. which is cool for this time of year. its been so humid it rains up instead of down. its not  hot till its 100 degrees plus 85% plus humidity making the heat index hit  over 115 and on top of that your standing on a roof with a surface temp  near 150 degrees and your laying shingles which i might add is physical labor.

If you have to deal with the heat, try cooling with wet cloths on areas of the skin  in which veins run close to the surface.  you want the cloth about 65-80 degrees( any cooler can throw you into shock)  and place it on areas such as wrist( palm up) inside of elbows and knees, back or  sides of neck.since your skin is trying to cool your pores will be open and the coolness from the  cloth will cool your blood. which will  after a bit cause your entire body to feel cooler.  each time you  resoak the cloth  change locations as your pores will close up some in that area and be less effective. 

You can also soak your feet   or hands in tap water and this will cool your blood. some one mentioned a hot shower, which opens your pores( and  helps unclog them if you been sweaty)  and for a time the air will feel cooler until your body readjust to the tempature change.  if your lucky enough to have a basement or crawl space  with inside access but no A/C you can place a fan( the bigger the better) at the opening blowing the air up into the main floor.  basements are alway cool and we use this  when we are doing interior work on a new home. crawlspaces are cool also but not quite as nice as  basements

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RE: Dealing with the Heat - 7/6/2007 11:36:55 PM   
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Status: offline 		shoot it has been raining here everyday this week. in the high 80's and low 90's, but it feel like someone soaked a flannel blanket and stuck in the micro then wrapped you in it. god, the air is so thick you can literally feel it, butt the air is set on 74 and works wonderfully!

bless the man that invented central AC....

lee

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RE: Dealing with the Heat - 7/7/2007 4:25:14 AM   
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We literally just finished putting in a pool.  I was the first to jump in about an hour ago...fully clothed to cool off and back to work screwing...the deck.


Lucky betch!
i've been clearing ground to install a pool for the past two weeks... had a couple of nice days where the highs were only in the mid 80s... rest of the time, it's low to mid 90s with 80-100% humidity.  Work for five minutes, stand in the shade and pant like a dog for ten, back to work for another five. Drinking about a half-gallon of water per hour. Ugh.

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