How do you guys handle heat?

[Flyboy]

im 5 minutes from the beach

[Sandman]

Originally posted by Skuzzy
Tell that to the rest of my body.

Summers get to 120F here. Before I got this Nissan, I had a Bronco. The AC in that thing was broken for three years.

[Skuzzy]

And the humidity is????

Try out 110F AND 70% humidity, then we can talk.

[Sandman]

Originally posted by Skuzzy
And the humidity is????

Try out 110F AND 70% humidity, then we can talk.

Ahem... this thread is about heat. I think there's another thread on dealing with the hardships of humidity.


Oh... on a bad day, humidity is 10%.

[Skuzzy]

Why not,..I been OT all day today, seems like.  10%,..you lucky poop (that is not a circumvention of the language filter, it is a word,..sort of,..I think,..I aint lookin it up).

[jEEZY]

put feet in a bucket of ice water

[RTSigma]

This is what I do down at school since they don't turn on the A/C:

Open your window and put a small desk fan and have it facing outside. It will suck hot air out of your room. In fact, just go buy those window fans if you can.

Just wear shorts, keep a lightly wetted rag on top of your head or around your neck.

DO NOT STOP DRINKING WATER.

[jEEZY]

Originally posted by RTSigma
DO NOT STOP DRINKING WATER.

but not too much...

http://sportsmedicine.about.com/cs/hydration/a/aa051200.htm

[indy007]

I avoid going outdoors in the summer. Once it hits August, it's usually 100+, heat indexes of 110+, & 90%+ humidity. I dig the winter because it's actually pleasant outside. Christmas in shorts & a t-shirt.

3 options off-hand.

1) Obviously, buy a fan.

2) Buy a window-mount AC. Works much better than a fan, but can cause some nasty spikes in your power bill.

3) Buy the fan from line 1, a hose, some reducers, a ball valve, copper tube, mist nozzles & fittings, & a large plastic drum. Install the nozzles in the copper tube, bend it into a spiral (careful not to crease it!), mount the hose & valve between the drum and spiral assembly. Zip-tie the spiral to the fan, put the drum above it, and fill it with water (ice water preferred). Very cheap & pretty effective. We built a couple of these for large paintball games and they work pretty well even in east texas temperatures.

[storch]

I handle the heat in stride.  having lived in South Florida my whole life one becomes accustomed, furthermore I work outside.  my wife who is from New Jersey runs our A/C systems into the ground, the failure of one of these systems constitutes grounds for perpetual whining on her part.  right now the inside temperature of our house is 70 degrees F  outside it's probably in the 90s.  I replaced the two units with an additional ton of cooling capacity each in order to keep the house cool at her comfort level.

[Nilsen]

All good advice, but they cost. I think ill just get my paddle and club my dear sweet cuddly neighbour tomorrow if he continues his rampage.

If i can just have the window open im good cause all i usually hear around here is the ocean.

The day is over anyway and my core temp is down to normal level.

[JB73]

Originally posted by Nilsen
I think ill just paddle my club.

might not make you cooler ; P

[LePaul]

...and that concludes our virtual tour of the HTC Corporate Headquarters.  Scared yet?  

[Joc]

Originally posted by Nilsen
thats just insane Joc

Were do you live?

Northern Ireland Nilsen,Im just a cold weather person,in hot weather my temper goes and Im basically nasty lol,just effects me that way,people at work hate it when its hot cos Im 'in a mood' lol,roll on winter!!!people like me much better in Autumn or Winter hehe;)

[Nilsen]

Ahh youre Irish!

From the bottom of my heart, thank you and your vilage!