STORM2K

Ok, let's just say for some reason your city said because of a shortage of electricity, etc. you could not use air conditioning for the rest of the summer.

What would be some ways you would cope with this?

Me... I would do all barbequing outside and I would be taking a lot of cold showers.

Like you, any cooking would be done outside, we'd spend days in the 'cement pond' and sleep on cots on the back patio. If we could find a way to rig fans to the dogs' tails, we'd do that too....

I wouldn't have to. Most homes here don't have air conditioning anyway.

I would buy an even bigger blow up pool and fill it daily with ice cold hose water and pretty much stay outside, going in and out of the pool.

Sounds good to me...

move to the south pole!

Last summer our apt complex lost power for 2 days...I just had gotten my hubby home from the hospital 2 weeks prior and let me tell you, I couldn't get him to go anywhere, yet he complained about the heat and I was worried sick about his health, I resorted to getting battery operated fans, buying ice and packing him with it, even the dreaded resort of calling his brother to get him to come to his senses to go somewhere cooler and all I got was, "No, you can take care of me"...sigh, men can be such a pain at times, but if the city lost power for the summer, I'd drag his a** somewhere cooler just to keep him quiet!

I am outa here, North here I come

Move, simple as that.

Tstormwatcher wrote:Move, simple as that.

Ditto!

I learned something a few weeks ago. What I learned is the reason I hate going shopping anywhere. That reason is air conditioning. Up until the first couple days of June, we went without AC at our house all spring. Yes, there were some 90+ days thrown in there, too. You know what? They were very comfortable. You know why? Because we were used to it. We didn't open the door to go outside and get hit with a brick wall known as heat. We walked into the natural environment that we had been living in. When we walked inside, we weren't incapacitated with a blow to the body of cold. However, when I went in any store, it was like walking into a freezer. And coming out of the store was like walking straight into hell. I love being without AC. But then my parents came home from their trip. And it's back to walking into a brick wall every time I open the door going either way.

By the way, has anyone ever noticed that on those amazingly hot days, when your vehicle is so hot, and you're only in it for a few minutes, so you don't turn the air on, how surprisingly cold the amazingly hot air is when you get out of the vehicle? If you haven't done that, try it sometime. 95 can feel pretty cold getting out of a closed, heated (keep the air off) vehicle.

Janice wrote:Ok, let's just say for some reason your city said because of a shortage of electricity, etc. you could not use air conditioning for the rest of the summer.

What would be some ways you would cope with this?Me... I would do all barbequing outside and I would be taking a lot of cold showers.

Die. I do not handle the heat well at all. Gotta have AC at home.

The transformer exploded last summer at about nine at night. I thought I was going to die. I called the electric company so many times, they had someone out at two in the morning. I was on the porch and went and thanked them. I had a heat stroke when I was about twelve and ever since then I can't tolerate the heat at all. I think I broke my thermostat.

Cookiely wrote:The transformer exploded last summer at about nine at night. I thought I was going to die. I called the electric company so many times, they had someone out at two in the morning. I was on the porch and went and thanked them. I had a heat stroke when I was about twelve and ever since then I can't tolerate the heat at all. I think I broke my thermostat.

I had heat exhaustion bad enough last summer to land me in the ER...cramps had just started when they started the IV on me so it didnt last long. I gotta drink tons of water and sports drinks in the summer...and i mean i slosh when i walk.

It'll remind me of when I was growing up! We had only one window air conditioner in the family room.

Marty is more "tolerant" of the humidity than I. He installed a whole-house fan which is really nice in the evening. However, when it's pushing upper 80's and soupy conditions, I start to whine - LOUDLY!!!!

Nothing like that has happened to me, yet. Although in the late 1990s, an apartment complex where me and my family used to stay had A/C problems during Mid-summer.

TexasStooge wrote:Nothing like that has happened to me, yet. Although in the late 1990s, an apartment complex where me and my family used to stay had A/C problems during Mid-summer.

Yeah, same here. I used to live in Richardson, and the air conditioning at my apartment complex broke down, and right in the middle of I think what was one of Dallas's top 5 heatwaves. Geez was it hot!

Well, here in Florida, many of us probably own generators. So I think I would just hook up a window unit AC and run it off the Generator. Of course the cost of fueling it up would probably run me into the ground after a while!!

I think that many people in the central and northern states do not fully understand the heat that we face in the southern states. You may see the 90's recorded in other states, but believe me, it's hotter in the south mainly because of the humidity. To the poster who claims we can deal with it if we get used to it, that's just not possible here in LA. It can get so hot, you can barely function, completely lose your appetite, run the risk of heat exhaustion and heat stroke. You sweat buckets within the first 20 minutes. It just gets unbearably hot (did I say bear?). Living without the A/C for quite a while last while after Katrina was extremely tough especially with my children. We had a fan hooked to a generator but it was just blowing hot air at us. None of us slept very well because whatever side you were laying on became soaked in sweat within a half an hour (and this was at night).

But to answer Janice's question, I would probably go to another town and stay in a hotel until the problem was fixed. If that wasn't financially possible, I would eat lots of fruit, drink lots of water, and stay under a garden hose for hours at a time.

We were without power for several days a couple of times during the 2004 hurricane season. I learned to live like the Spanish. Get up early, do what had to be done while it was reasonably cool, set in front of the fan and read or at the computer until nap time, nap until evening, then get up and do what had to be done again. Sleep with little clothes on after a cold shower. You quickly learn why the south used to have a slow even lifestyle.