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What are ya doing to stay cool

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hey_moe

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WOW has it been hot these last few days. It is suppose to be a hundred degs today. I took off a few days this week and stayed in da pool. The grandkids have been over too so as far as just floating and taken a break they keep me wide open but nice to just flop around in da water. My buddy Pat informed me his upstairs Heatpump went out Monday. The evaporator in da attic bit the dust...OUCH! he said he has been adding freon in it every once in a while but now it won't hold a charge but only for a few days. Big leak. The evaporator whole sales for 788.22. I said chet for another grand we can replace the whole system. I ordered one yesterday and had the condenser,air-handler, 10K heater,fifty foot line set, two way drier ship to his house. He has a ton and a half system but said it can't neet the demand on hot days. I said this two and a half ton system should do the trick. I told Pat I need to be in da attic by six in da morning, he said why so early, I said by nine I wanna be done with the attic part cus I don't wanna cook. Running that line set is gonna be a bummer, but what da heck. Pat was saying he was trying to make it to the fall where it would be cooler but that didn't happen.
 
i'm doing pretty well for now, with my window a/c. i got a call from the hall today, but the job was too far for me to reach without a car. according to them i won't be home enjoying the a/c much longer.
 
the ac in my RV comes on by 9am and i sit right here at my desk uner the vent....weve been averaging 95-99F for several weeks now with low humidity...i know yall like the low humidity idea..but it makes you chest/lung feel like yer in a over after awhile...i used to work as a plumber and fire fighter.....we my father and i,were working on a new home..slab floor home so we were sourrounded by rock,,it was 108F,6% RH,we had just eatin lunch so it was around 12:30,drippin with sweat,( i had a hangover)and my pager went off for a wildland all call dispatch..we live on a ridge line that over looks the sacramento valley.we are about 1300 feet and the valley averages 20-100feet obove sea level..i looked down at whats called "the thermal lands" where the fire was reported and saw what looked like a bomb had gone off ( gave me chills again typing this)so i hauled tail to the fire house and grabbed my grass engine and waited for my crew....when we got at scene,we overheard the battalon chief give a report to dispatch that the fire was approximatly 500 acres at that point...and it was goin and blowin....the temp at the ICP was 112F,,,its a record for the area to this day...we workedthat stupid fire for three days....and ill tell ya..i miss the fire deprtment..but when i hear a dispatch on my scanner and look over at my weather station and see 99F or like the otherday 101F and 12% H..and these men and women are heading out to a wildland fire....i have to thin.........do i really miss it???
 
What do Hannah and I do to stay cool?

i. Stay indoors. (home, mall, office, library)
ii. Go to the mall.
iii. Chill out on the beach or the pool!
iv. Stay on the shade
v. Wear 100% cotton
vi. Take a COLD shower!
vii. Drink plenty of water, (not necessarily cold!)
viii. Relaxing....
 
Chacha said:
... v. Wear 100% cotton ...
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When I'm home I tend to wear as little as possible. (Usually a pair of cotton shorts ... nothing else.) Of course having a thermally massed house as I do, (concrete block with the cores filled,) I can very easily keep my living quarters set at 67 with very little effort from the central air system.

Walking into that house from 99 degree temperature gets nipply real quick. :ernae:
 
Let a letter carrier give you some pointers if you have to be outside for any length of time.
1) Wear loose fitting clothing...lets the breeze get in there and cool you off.
2) LOTS of water...cool water, not cold. Cold can make your throat constrict and give you a brain freeze.
3) Wide brimmed floppy hats are best. I use a Columbia hat with a 4" brim all around. Weighs just around 2 oz and keeps the sun off your whole head. Baseball style hats are useless unless you're playing baseball.
4) Take frequent breaks in the shade or (if available) a/c. 5 or 10 minutes in the shade can save your life.
5) If you start to cramp up, feel a pounding headache, or stop sweating, IMMEDIATELY get indoors and start drinking a sports drink (Gatorade, PowerAid) and even more water. If you start to vomit, go to the hospital and get IV fluids (you are dangerously dehydrated at that point and could suffer heat stroke).
 
Well, for the past 10 days all I did was sweat and drink LOTs of water. Was working down in the Everglades of south Florida. The first couple of days were the worst, then my body got acclimated to the heat and it was as bad.

I rolled up a bandanna and tied it around my head as a sweat band. Had to ring it our every 15-20 mins. LOL
 
Our part of Ohio has been rather hot and extremely humid and muggy lately. To stay cool, the central A/C is set at 75 degrees, all the ceiling fans and the pedestal fan in the living room are running 24 hours a day. Luckily, the place is very well insulated, has newer double pane windows and the furnace and central A/C equipment are only 6 or 7 year old...so they are pretty efficient units. This month's electric bill is only 129 dollars..which isn't all that bad considering how many electrical devices are running in this house.

When I have to be outside, I make sure to pay attention to the body and what it is telling me. When I cut the grass up around the house using a push mower, I do it in sections...one section a day. When I work in the garden, I do it in the evening after the garden is in full shade. I make sure to drink plenty of water before heading out doors, take breaks to drink water while I am working out in the heat, and when I come inside afterward I drink even more water.

OBIO
 
Been nice and cool in the Arctic, why would you like to file a order for a Snow storm or Blizzard:running:.
 
I only go out when I have to PT on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Rest of the time, I'm catching up on NCIS on the sofa. :D
 
For the past two weeks it's been hotter than hell here.... 105 was the hightest temp we saw, with very high 90s and a few more 100s mixed in. Stayed indoors with the A/C on. Today I was in the Koi pond but that was a warm 80 degrees, so not all that refreshing tho wet. But the fish enjoyed the company. LOL
 
It's been averaging 95 here for the past 2 weeks, with humidity approaching 100%. Heat index today was 114.

I live in a tin can on wheels mobile home on a lot with no shade, and a busted A/C unit. How are we keeping cool? We abandoned house, and went next door to my mom's, lol. Hopefully in a couple weeks I will have enough $$ to fix the a/c....
 
I finally went to work for a few days at the end of last week and beginning of this week. Had to replace some light fixtures in a Chicago public grade school that must have been built in the early 1900's. I had no air conditioning except where they had installed window units for the year-round employees. The gymnasium, where I had to change the fixtures, was on the third floor. The whole first day was spent humping tools, material, and scaffolding up the stairs. I basically had to lock my knees to even walk after that. I was pretty much soaking wet with sweat every day I was there, by 8AM. I took 3 shirts to work with me so I could change out at lunch and for the ride home.
I made a bee line for the pool when I got home but the wife and kids left the solar cover on one day and it turned to bath water. Luckily the temp dropped down to the upper sixties that night a cooled it down.
 
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