I'm meeeelllllltinnnnng....

[swiftangel]

When I lived in the US, especially Boston and New York, I was used to temperatures in the 90s and even low 100s with very high humidity during the summer. I would read posts from my UK friends complaining about how horribly hot it was when the weather pixies said it was only 75 degrees with 70% humidity. When we got days of just 75 degrees and 70

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[swiftangel]

I have a 3-litre Robinsons bottle that I've been making my way through... I've always been susceptible to heat stroke. Before I head to the store, I'm going to find a lightweight tea towel, wet it, fold it into a strip and stick it in the freezer. When I get back, I'll just wrap it around the back of my neck to cool off. That seems to be the best method I've found so far to beat the heat. :)

[swiftangel]

It's a trick I learned back in high school when I worked for the summer in a little drive-through icecream parlour. The space inside was very small and the freezers and softserve machines gave off a lot of heat, so a couple of us started useing clean washcloths, wetting them and sticking them in the big freezer... we'd use them until they got too warm to do any good, then stuck them back in. We had our own little freezer compartment for them and everything. :)

[alryssa]

See! See! :P

[ellemir]

I so agree.
We are so looking forward to being in the US next week with aircon that will let us sleep.
And I'm packing sweaters so we don't freeze in malls and restuarants :)

[inanimatepeanut]

I'm glad someone else is thinking this. I call home, where it's currently heat index 108 (not sure celcius, but above 40 anyway), and then I feel guilty for whinging about the heat here! My 80-year-old grandmother went out and mowed the lawn for a few hours while it was still 97 degrees, and I'm whinging about sitting on public tranport when it's about 82 here?? Now I don't feel quite so bad. I miss air conditioning- last summer I had a window aircon unit designed to cool a whole house, and used it to cool only my room- it was about 50 degrees in there- so, so wasteful, and yet I was too happy to care. Ah well, such is life I suppose- I'm just too sensitive to heat and cold really, so the UK in many ways has been a welcome climate change.... if we could just drop down to where it was most of the summer so far, it would be lovely...

soggy peanut

[frobisher]

I, however, can still laugh.

BWAHAHAHA :-)