how do you deal with the heat?

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04 Sep 2008, 9:45 am

Demp, humidity....

I gotta have 2 shirts in my bag with me at all time.

Sucks but winter is coming so it will suck even more.

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04 Sep 2008, 9:45 am

Erminea wrote:

Hi there,

Most of you come from the States and some from the southern parts there.

My question is how do you deal with the heat or the warm temperature there?

My brain start boiling when the temp. goes above +/- 25 degrees Celsius or in Fahrenheit it's +/- 77 degrees and I really most take it easy. And drink, for example, no coffee or I'm going to freak. I lost a job 'cos of it, during a period (aug.'03) of very high T (>30 d. C.). I freaked out.

There will be parts of your country that go beyond 100 degrees F. I think I would shoot myself in those circumstances. I'm not promoting that, of course.

Me, high-functioning most of the time, stop doing that. I find it very stressfull. What is your view, here, on boiling temperatures? And how do you cope?

Best of luck to you all,
Ceesjan

P.s. We, in Europe, use degrees in Celsius, the USA uses Fahrenheit. But that's quite simple to converse; for those who want to know:
Celsius to Fahrenheit, F= C x 1.8 + 32 and
Fahrenheit to Celsius, C= (F - 32)/1.8.

good to know is that both tea and coffee are dyhydrating, so you only increase the problem of heat. Instead as someon already mentioned is water and rehydration...a good getorade ie.

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05 Sep 2008, 1:50 am

Here in New York it gets very hot and humid in the summer. Today my car said it was 90℉/32℃. (It also gets very cold in the winter - we do not exactly have a temperate climate. :roll: )

I intensely dislike the heat so I try to stay indoors and in the air conditioning as much as possible, and not go out in the middle of the day. And I drink a lot of water.

But really, I should spend May to September somewhere cooler. Greenland, say, or Murmansk. :wink:

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05 Sep 2008, 2:05 am

i prefer a hot, humid climate to a cold, dry one.

but i do seem to run hotter than most people. when i get angry my head gets hot, and my hands and feet are always hot and sweaty.

when i am in florida, i will carry around ice packs in the house and just hold them in my hands. i rinse my feet in the bathtub a few times a day, or wash them. keeping the hands and feet cold helps.

and when i get really mad, i'll dunk my head in cold water or take a shower. i have to run my head under cold water for awhile after i excercise too, takes me a long time to cool down.

and sleep with a cotton sheet and a fan.

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05 Sep 2008, 3:31 pm

I stay in the fans or go swimming.

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05 Sep 2008, 3:43 pm

one word ~ air conditioning~

I literally pass out if I get too hot. Nothing can stop it so I have to stay inside.

luckily I live in Central NY and it usually isn't too hot here!! !

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05 Sep 2008, 4:54 pm

Oh man I know EXACTLY what you mean...my "ideal operating temperature" is maybe 65 degrees fahrenheit or thereabouts. I also can't sleep without constantly moving air because I have trouble breathing the warm air of my own breath at night, especially if I'm lying on my stomach as I often prefer to do.

This year a friend got me a table fan for my desk at work because she noticed I was always complaining about my office being warm. I told her it is probably the single most thoughtful birthday gift anyone has ever gotten me...

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05 Sep 2008, 4:58 pm

CelticRose wrote:

gsilver wrote:

Personally, I don't see how anyone can live in Phoenix heat. Phoenix summers just sound crazy to me.

Albuquerque is 90-93 degrees nearly every day in the summer. That I can handle.

110? **** that. Seriously.

Phoenix summers are crazy. The heat is unbearable. I've lived here all of my 35 years and I'm still not used to it. I keep telling myself that one of these years I'm going to move someplace cooler, but it never happens.

Yuck, definitely. My family visited Arizona a few years ago, and Phoenix was the hottest, at 108 degrees. Hotter than Tuscon.

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05 Sep 2008, 5:00 pm

dougn wrote:

Here in New York it gets very hot and humid in the summer. Today my car said it was 90℉/32℃. (It also gets very cold in the winter - we do not exactly have a temperate climate. :roll:

)

Yeah, but they've got it even worse in the Midwest, so we shouldn't complain too much. :wink:

I remember hearing that Minneapolis has the greatest extremes of temperature variation in the country.

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