We have no AC because it usually aint this hot here. Some of the last few days lying on the couch in a sweaty puddle all I can think of is a Faulkner novel, and wonder how people managed to do anything.
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Wet a cotton sheet, wring it almost but not quite dry. Go out to a mattress on the porch. Lie on that mattress with the wet sheet over you. Allow the miracle of evaporation help. Wake up in the night and refresh the sheet. That's how I survived Louisiana heat waves in the 1950's.
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If you can direct an electric fan onto your wet sheet, so much the better. Your sweat will evaporate that much more quickly. In fact, you might get too cool until the sheet dries out. In the daytime? Drink LOTS of not-too-sweet lemonade or ice tea - packed with ice.
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Hold chunks of ice chipped off of a block of ice from the ice house to your wrists, inner elbows, back of the neck, back of the knees - anywhere your blood comes to the surface. Keep the ice moving so you cool your blood, not freeze your skin. Ice and fluids, fluids & ice. WHEW.
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I always used to smile back in the days before air conditioning when people from the northeast complained about heat. I'd think YOU HAVE NO IDEA. But most Louisiana homes were built taking the heat into consideration. Of course, I was born to the projects and they were not.pic.twitter.com/PRIBGgq8X1
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Our house is pretty good (usually the heat only get bad a few days a summer) because of the same thing, but with the way the clinate has changed lately it’s been...a lot. I’ll try these things! (We luckily don’t have humidity much.)
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Be aware of your electrolytes, too. If we sweat a lot and drink lots of fluids in the summer, our electrolytes can get out of balance. I use lite salt (half potassium, half sodium), especially when I'm hot. A sprinkle on some cool melon is lovely when it gets 80-plus degrees.
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Celery has sodium. Oranges and bananas have potassium. Lots of juicy, cooling fruits and veggies can be both satisfying and healthful during the heat of summer: green salads, fruit salads,slushies, smoothies, juices. Yum. https://thehealthbeat.com/fruits-and-vegetables-high-electrolytes/ …
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There was also a time before vaccinations, but if I get smallpox... I’m for sure gonna start complaining. Planet earth is super hot right now!pic.twitter.com/udY9F6Afjb
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I like your point, but smallpox is actually the only human disease, to date, to have been eliminated worldwide, following vaccination campaigns. So if you do catch it, can I have the exclusive interview with you? (Over the phone, obviously, that shit's contagious!)
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You have a deal
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Wonderful essay - wish it didn't come to an end. Great read!
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I remember this article well, but I had forgotten that it was written by Miller. However, we all need to understand that "our" air-conditioning pumps heat from inside to outside and makes everywhere hotter where the air isn't conditioned.
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Not really how it works
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Please illuminate us.
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Ok I thought you said pumps AIR. "Pumps heat" is accurate. Sorry. I read a whole book about AC once. Very nerdy.
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When I was a child we had no air conditioning. My dad put a box fan in the short hallway just to get the air to flow through. I would lay on the floor of my room just to get a piece of that air.
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Many of us don't have air conditioning, so we understand just fine.
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