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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - 2:10 pm
Juju, how about spending part of the day at the movies? Might be the only way to deal with it without falling over from heat. We're on our 19th day of 100+ temps today, which also means 19 days of the kids spending very little time outside.
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Crzndeb
Member
07-26-2004
| Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - 4:02 pm
I'm a bit north of Seattle and it's 96 in my house..I have a fan blowing on me and I keep putting a wet towel in the freezer for a bit and then around my shoulders....helps a bit. I do not like this one single bit...hahahaha....and we still have this for a few more days
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - 8:18 pm
It is only 90 in my office where I am right now. I had to open the windows, as it seemed cooler outside, and it is 92. We spent an hour with Tess and family today in air conditioning, and that seemed to help. The bottom floor of our split-level stays considerably cooler than upstairs, so I can go visit Bigdog in the cave if I am about to have vapors. LOL, Wardog, I did actually suggest going to a movie tonight.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - 9:05 pm

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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - 9:06 pm
I was reading (maybe msnbc?) earlier about how somewhere, Washington if I remember right had set up cooling centers because ya'll were experiencing such an unusual heat wave. Movies was the first thing that popped into my head
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - 9:55 pm
It probably was WA for the cooling centers. Or maybe Portland where Denecee and Opheliasgrandma are. They have it way worse. It is in the 100's down there, and same as here, most of the houses don't have a/c because we usually just don't need it. It is down to 88 F in my office now with TWO fans on full blast for over two hours. I could also do what we did today visiting with Tess, just go down to the major grocery store a mile from our house, with a big seating area in the Starbucks/deli area, and read a book for an hour. The chill I got down there lasted me at least an hour.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - 10:39 pm
Are you guys dealing with high humidity too? The grocery store is a good idea too. Quickie 2 minute cold showers help for a bit too...not a shower to get clean, just jump in, get wet, hop out.
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Biscottiii
Member
05-29-2004
| Thursday, July 30, 2009 - 2:09 am
Hey, "not a shower to get clean, just jump in, get wet, hop out." Never thought of that, will try tomorrow, have been sticking my head under the kitchen faucet every half hour & half frozen towels around my neck. It's been MISERABLE. Confess that I have always had a 'thing' of needing a blanket over me while sleeping. Even back when I was raised in Phx, light blanket during summer but I've never had a problem with heat issues. The past 2 nights I have actually slept nekid, no blanket not even a sheet, no pillows, still can't sleep. Yesterday weatherunderground said 60% humidity, today it said 31% humidity. No wonder it was so warm, for Wed July 29th per KiroTV: "It's Officially Seattle's Hottest Day On Record The National Weather Service reports Sea-Tac Airport has reached 103 degrees, making it the hottest day ever since record keeping began in 1891. " We've had a series of really violent rapes & murders going on here in Seattle lately. At least, living upstairs, I can safely leave all my windows open all night. Just feel so SORRY for all those folks that have to lock their windows to stay safe!
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Biscottiii
Member
05-29-2004
| Thursday, July 30, 2009 - 2:13 am
Maybe I can't sleep, cause I'm missing my blankey! But even a sheet is too warm.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, July 30, 2009 - 2:17 am
I know the miserable feeling. We're under the water restrictions here, so the showers have to be pretty quick, but it helps some. You might also try that (maybe at that point washing your hair so it's wet if you can sleep with a wet head) right before bed and then lay down nekid with no sheets or blankets. The humidity is what gets me the worst. We're usually such a dry heat here, I don't know how ya'll deal with that. It just makes the heat so much worse and heavy and sticky. 103 in Seattle? That's just nuts!
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Biscottiii
Member
05-29-2004
| Thursday, July 30, 2009 - 2:35 am
The problem with showers is that it just leaves me "wide eyed & bushy tailed". My Sis in Phx takes a shower just before bed, but I've always wondered "How does one sleep?" She says it's relaxing, but for me it's just a wakeup call. I hauled up a 2nd fan from downstairs today, so it was a little more palatable. The paper said this wasn't Global Warming, just a high pressure system hovering over. PITA is what I call it!
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Thursday, July 30, 2009 - 5:28 am
Can't you all who are sweltering just pick up a 5000 BTU window air conditioner? They're under a hundred dollars around here and would at least give you a cool room to retreat to. Even if you only used it for a week, it would sure be worth it rather than to be sleepless and miserable from the heat and humidity!
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Crzndeb
Member
07-26-2004
| Thursday, July 30, 2009 - 7:51 am
Last night was a difficult night of sleep....very little. I kept spraying down my sheet w/water and then laying down. Also had a table fan blowing on me and another bigger one on floor trying to circulate air. I finally got up at 1:30 and put a cold, wet towel over me. I feel bad for my dog. He was going from bed to floor all night. I think I'm definitely going to look for some sort of free standing a/c unit. Then I can tote it to each room. This is such a rare occasion for Seattle.
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Thursday, July 30, 2009 - 8:02 am
oh but those days/nights that you need one, it will become one of the best investments you'll ever make! Portable ones are more expensive, and you either have to run a drain hose out the window or be prepared to empty the bucket of water pretty regularly (in New York state, our humidity is always high...)
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Dfennessey
Member
07-25-2004
| Thursday, July 30, 2009 - 8:09 am
We are have a thunderstorm right now in Boston. I think this is it for the day. Still very humid
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Thursday, July 30, 2009 - 9:03 am

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Dfennessey
Member
07-25-2004
| Thursday, July 30, 2009 - 9:24 am
It's not on straight Scoot. Do not send any more rain until at least Tuesday of next week please
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Denecee
Member
09-05-2002
| Thursday, July 30, 2009 - 9:33 am
Topped out at 105.2 outside my house yesterday and this morning I walked at 5:30 the temp was down to 62 degrees, loved it! Luckily, we bought a window unit 18,000 btu's a couple of weeks ago because everybody is sold out now, I heard you can't even find a fan at the stores right now. Only suppose to be 94 today, which is very doable for me. Stay cool!
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Dfennessey
Member
07-25-2004
| Thursday, July 30, 2009 - 9:50 am
Denecee it is all Scoots fault you guys out west are having such a hot spell. I keep trying to send the rain your way but Scoot always grabs it first and sends it to the northeast overnight express 
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Thursday, July 30, 2009 - 10:33 am

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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Thursday, July 30, 2009 - 11:21 am
Buying an air conditioner or a fan in Seattle during a record heat wave. There's a novel idea. There simply are not any left for sale by the time the heat arrives. They almost had a riot here yesterday when word got out that the local hardware store was getting in some room air conditioners. I actually probably would have bought a window a/c last week, but when Bigdog replaced all the windows in the house, he got the ones that slide from side to side, so the window units don't fit in that kind of window. And we actually did go out to Costco last week to buy a free standing room air conditioner. The $550 price tag for an appliance that would only be used about five days every ten years sent me right back out the door. The really bad heat should be over tomorrow. I am about 90 miles north of Seattle, and we are not suffering nearly as badly up here, but it is still fairly miserable. But we were able to sleep under a sheet with a very strong fan in the window.
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Denecee
Member
09-05-2002
| Thursday, July 30, 2009 - 11:35 am
I was wondering where all the rain was going!!! lol
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Thursday, July 30, 2009 - 11:38 am

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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, July 30, 2009 - 11:47 am
Around here you can't find a fan anywhere (except maybe the really small ones) after mid-May and that's before it gets really hot.
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Dfennessey
Member
07-25-2004
| Thursday, July 30, 2009 - 11:51 am
Denecee if I could find a way to get the rain past Scoot I would. You could always come to the east coast we have had plenty of rain this summer.
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