| Hot enough for ya?
Posted: 7/29/2009 5:27:33 PM | It is so hot outside I'm betting the laundry I just hung on the clothesline at 5:20 pm will be dry before 8 pm.
I'm ready to re-arrange my schedule, arranging clients come over here or me do my house calls to them, between midnight and 8 am, and I'll spend the day holed up in my bedroom with the A/C on.
Apparently if you put a bowl of ice cubes in front of a fan the air it directs at you will cooler.
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| Hot enough for ya?
Posted: 7/29/2009 5:47:21 PM | | I sleep with a fan by my head, but I have to wait for all my noisy neighbours to get of their patios and shut-up. Another trick is to have a cool shower/bath and wet your hair. Don't dry off and go to bed. You could even sleep in damp clothing or a damp swim suit. | |
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Posted: 7/29/2009 6:08:12 PM | I'm melting at home, the fans just blow warm air, and the lack of sleep is causing me to do stupid mistakes at work. I'm heat intolerant, been very good in drinking tons of fluids, taking long cool showers and eventually the heat will leave.
It could be worse, I could be living in the interior, and now that's too hot for me. | |
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Posted: 7/29/2009 7:03:38 PM | I just moved here from Winnipeg a month ago and this weather is the reason why we moved!!!! Back home people are complaining how I took their Sunshine away because they are having rainy cold temperatures compared to usual.. By now Winnipeg is usually melting because its so hot out.. Well hopefully by winter time when I am sitting at -7 and Winterpeg is in there deep freeze of -35 it will be worth the move... | |
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Posted: 7/29/2009 7:09:57 PM | ^^^So... It's YOUR fault that we are having this record breaking heat wave... 
Tonight, I have my twin size bed set up in my freezer
(Gaud I hate it when the frozen fish sticks poke up my azz....)  | |
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Posted: 7/29/2009 7:17:21 PM | Well, my friends back home who were sad to see me go say its my fault too.. I didn't mean too tho.. .. I have been trying hard to send it back... | |
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Posted: 7/29/2009 7:32:47 PM | My place is disgustingly hot. I have a patio door on the main floor, and no other windows that open to help create a cross current. Upstairs in the bedrooms we have huge windows with tiny little openings at the top. Again, no currents there. Sleep has not been an option.
I have fans in every room, but basically they just the swish the hot, humid air around, giving my place the full 'living in a clothes dryer' effect.
Today I actually swam in our ocean .. something I NEVER do, just to cool down at the beach.
Tomorrow I think I'll invest in some air-conditioned retail therapy.
Ya, it's definitely hot enough for me. 
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Posted: 7/29/2009 7:38:42 PM | Would it be possible to have seasonally adjusted profile photo? On my opening page, I have one who is wearing a winter coat and another posing in front of a Xmas tree.
Nounour
P.S. I know, I have no right to criticize anyones profile photo being that I have none. Sorry. | |
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Posted: 7/29/2009 7:55:45 PM | My place is disgustingly hot. I have a patio door on the main floor, and no other windows that open to help create a cross current.
I am currently renting "rooms' in my 7 cubic ft chest freezer.....
Please go to sitonmyicecube.com to reserve your special place in this humid time.... | |
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Posted: 7/29/2009 8:37:43 PM | I got back from a refreshing swim at Mowatt Bay (Powell Lake). The water was perfect, no brrr cold-shock when getting in. My swim trunks were nearly dried on the motorcycle ride home.
I was right about the laundry drying quickly. I pulled it in before I left, 2 hours after hanging it, and all of, included the running shoes, was bone dry.
If this was regular weather I'd be moving to someplace cooler. | |
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Posted: 7/29/2009 8:46:23 PM |
40.5 yesterday here in Penticton; it's like Africa hot
I'm going up on saturday. my grandma and aunt have air conditioning thankfully. | |
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Posted: 7/29/2009 9:14:43 PM | Today was officially the hottest day ever recorded in Vancouver, at 33.8 C:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/07/29/bc-heat-wave-forecast.html
Is anybody getting any sleep in this heat?
I manage fine despite being on the top floor of a building that gets quite hot.
A mistake a lot of people make is to open all their windows wide at night. What you need is not simply more air, but to get as much breeze as possible blowing over you while you sleep. This is a different problem, and actually quite a complex one to solve if you look at the physics of it. Fortunately you don't need to worry about the details, just do this:
Find the window closest to your bed and open it as wide as possible. Sleep right next to it if you can.
Close all the other windows, then find the one "most opposite" it - ideally on the other side of the house. Open that one wide and see how much draft you get through the window by the bed.
Then close that one again (for now) and try the other windows one at a time and see if any of them give you more breeze through the bedroom window. Try them half-open as well as wide open.
When you've tried them all one by one, then experiment a bit with having more than one open, some wide open and some partially open, till you find the best possible combination. It probably won't be "all of them open as much as possible."
If you need to cool down more than one bedroom, then the routine above won't work and you have problems. :)
Why does that work? When any wind (even a little) blows over a building it creates slight pressure differentials, and those can make breezes inside. How much breeze depends on the area of the "out" window compared to the area of the "in" windows, but not in any simple way because you get back pressure and such complications. If you open the windows up too much (ie all of them all the way) then the pressure difference disappears and the only breeze you get is if a real wind is blowing outside.
For example, I live in a one-bedroom apartment which has three windows all facing south and parallel to each other, one big one in my bedroom and two small ones in the living room. What works best for me is to open the bedroom window wide, plus one of the living room windows halfway (or both of them a crack, which I do when I'm sleeping because then I don't need to worry about burglars or critters climbing in). That gives me a nice breeze even though the windows are all on the same side of the building, just because the walls inside the apartment make them "far" enough apart to be different.
Also, remember that fans don't actually cool the air at all, they just cool you by moving air over you. So any fan that isn't pointed at a person is wasting energy and actually making your place hotter. If you have really huge fans in just the right places, they might increase overall air flow through your rooms, but probably not - tinkering with the windows is likely to work much better. | |
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Posted: 7/29/2009 9:17:52 PM | Cool tip:
Keep your moisturizer/body lotion in the refrigerator .. after a cool shower, apply it all over.
ahhhhhhh ... 
I'm going up on saturday. my grandma and aunt have air conditioning thankfully.
Drive safe! Does your vehicle have a/c? | |
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Posted: 7/29/2009 9:19:08 PM | | alli oop There is more to this heat than just trying to keep cool in your home. If you are planning to drive into hot country remember to do a pre trip on your car if you are driving. ie. top up the coolent, make sure the belts are not cracked, tires good ect and bring along a water supply. You do not want to have a break down in that country and breakdowns always happen when you least expect them. prepare for a hot spell just like a winter storm. Be prepared. Just some friendly advice. Have a safe trip. | |
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Posted: 7/29/2009 9:25:07 PM | | i have little foot warmer things for the winter, with the rice or beans or whatever in them. i've been keeping them in the freezer and putting them on at night. they lose thier cooldness and then coolness after 30 mins, but its a momentary bit of comfort anyway. i've also been putting damp pj gowns in the freezer too. | |
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Posted: 7/29/2009 9:58:21 PM | nice tip traveller,
what do you do when the wind changes, stay up all night opening closing windows???
my place is poorly insulated and with seven rooms up it heats up to the high thirties. Keep the windows closed during the day till the room temperature is the same as outside, then I open all and keep one fan blowing to create airflow. I get up around 5 am..oh what sacrifice, and close all windows. The house is usually as cool as the outside then.
Thank god I can escape to my office on the ground floor where it is about ten degrees cooler 
Drinking more does not really help much unless you dehydrate more due to extreme exposure working hard. The body just disposes most of the extra fluid in sweat as a means to cool. It also makes you more tired and you need to replenish the salt levels of the body due to the sweat excretion. If you feel thirsty have a candy or chew gum.
Replenish the body with liquid when it is cooler at night.
Keep safe and out of the sun, this too shall pass. | |
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| Hot enough for ya?
Posted: 7/30/2009 1:01:46 AM | I heard that it reached a whopping 41 in the valley of the snow today!! Thank goodness I was not at home to suffer it  | |
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Posted: 7/30/2009 6:40:45 AM | I've stopped all activity at the stove... my kids have had more take outs in one week then all year
took a bus to meet a friend yesterday, after only one block towards the bus stop I muttered
"kill me now"
a poor baby on the bus was crying from this heat, you could see how hot she was and the mother frantically waving a makeshift fan at her .. insane.. just insane this is
on that note; please check on any elderly family members or friends you know
many suffer from dehydration in this heat !!!!
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Posted: 7/30/2009 11:10:20 AM | Cooking is NOT an option at my house.....I've BBQ'd everything in site(can you say cereal??) The car is another melting story...NO AC.. My steering wheel was so hot, I near ran off the road trying to grip it....say, talking about getting a grip, damn, I'm digging a hole tonite in the cool earth just to get a decent nights sleep....
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| Hot enough for ya?
Posted: 7/30/2009 11:53:04 AM | | Try keeping a spray bottle of ice water to spray yourself when you are driving. get a steering wheel cover that is a light color. Put towels on your seats if they are plastic material. You can get a nasty burn if you wear shorts. If you have a back yard and a tent and camping gear go camping right at home. As soon as the sun drops it cools a little and you are out in the open air. If you are in an Apt. make a tent out of bed sheets on your balcony and make a bed out there. I was just at fields in Mission with my neighbor who was buying a fan. I know the manager and she advised us that every fan or a/c is sold out in the area. She checked for her customers. It is always a good idea to be prepared for both the hot summers and possible winter storms. Hope you make out ok Ms.Behaving. My place is cold. I have to make sure my dog Geronimo is comfortable. I set up his gazebo in the back yard and did not extend it to full height so the shade stays low. He comes in to the air conditioned house when he is hot and goes back out when he is cold. Spoiled dog | |
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Posted: 7/30/2009 12:18:21 PM | | How hot is it, well I was watching my tv last night and suddenly a warning flashed up on my screen " Temperature is too hot" | |
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Posted: 7/30/2009 12:35:31 PM | | The air is so humid that I can just barely see Vancouver Island only 17 naughtical miles away. I can see only the shore and low land. Anything at higher elevation is obscured by the haze in the air. Normally I can the mountains too. | |
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Posted: 7/30/2009 1:58:09 PM |
Today was officially the hottest day ever recorded in Vancouver, at 33.8 C
Wimps! It was 35 in Victoria.
Folks east of here deal with this weather a few weeks at least every year. It's not that bad!
My 'keep cool' tip, imported from the East just for you: take showers. Not hot, not cold, but cool; turn on the cold first and add just enough warm so it doesn't shock you when you get in. When you get out, don't dry off. Dab the biggest drips so you don't leave puddles as you walk around and then air dry. The evaporation of the water will cool you off for quite a while. When I lived in homes w/o air con back East, this shower trick would cool me long enough to get to sleep at night. | |
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Posted: 7/30/2009 2:06:08 PM | We have a haze in Vancouver. They tell us that is smoke from the forest fires. However, I think it is smog and a little bit of smoke. I heard that hospital visits due to respiratory and heat issues have increased.
I am okay with the bad air and the humidity. The heat bugs me though. I like the idea of putting moisturizer in the fridge. You could also use those ice bags that you use when you have an injury or a bag of peas wrapped in a towel and sleep with it like a teddy bear. It wouldn't work for me because I am like the woman in the Princess in the Pea. Okay, kidding, I do not want to hear about how I am a narcissist again. | |
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