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miss_kae_ozI am posting this from my mobile, so grammer and spelling Nazis beware, I am not checking this for errrors.
Reading and hearing about peoples suffering in this heat is getting painful. So here are a few tidbits of advice from the desert rat girl and how to live in a house without air conditioning in a city that's average temp is 114 degrees.
First, if you must stay home, open all your windows, then soak your sheets in water and hang them over your windows. Keep re-wetting them.
Also go out and but large quantities of running alcohol and a squirt bottle. Fill the bottle with the alcohol partially diluted with water, not much, maybe a third. Spray your home as you walk around. Or, more effectively, find one room you can stay in for awhile and shut the doors and spray it down every so often. In tests done in phoenix, the spray bottle method lowered temps by an average of 10 degrees. This also works for cars.
You can also get a small spray bottle for your person. You can replace the alcohol with witchhazel if you worry about dry skin. It has a pleasant effect if you add eucalyptus or lavander to the mix.
Also turn off and unplug any unused appliances. Often just the plugs in the outlets generate heat, let alone any motors devices have. Do not keep your drudge open. While standing in front may feel cool, its constant running is actually heating your house. And drink got coffee. This triggers your bodies internal cooling mechanisms. You get the chills and you cool down. And FYI, when out side, long sleeve cotton shirts help and jeans help keep you cool by blocking direct sunlight and, no I don't know how, but helping your nodya hair help lift the heat away from you to be carried away by the wind. This is why cattle ranchers and the like are always seen dessed head to toe. This is
a couple pieces of my summer advice. Tried and proven by a couple hundred years of Zonians.
I should say that for those of who had airconditioning, to save money, you out tin foil over all your windows and spend all daylight hours at the mall. Then you come home wbd open all the windows and doors and BBQ outside for dinner(never use your oven for any reason.). Then when you go to bed, blast the airconditioner. Then turn it off in the morning and go to the mall. Now you know why malls are so big in Az. Figuratively and literally.
Reading and hearing about peoples suffering in this heat is getting painful. So here are a few tidbits of advice from the desert rat girl and how to live in a house without air conditioning in a city that's average temp is 114 degrees.
First, if you must stay home, open all your windows, then soak your sheets in water and hang them over your windows. Keep re-wetting them.
Also go out and but large quantities of running alcohol and a squirt bottle. Fill the bottle with the alcohol partially diluted with water, not much, maybe a third. Spray your home as you walk around. Or, more effectively, find one room you can stay in for awhile and shut the doors and spray it down every so often. In tests done in phoenix, the spray bottle method lowered temps by an average of 10 degrees. This also works for cars.
You can also get a small spray bottle for your person. You can replace the alcohol with witchhazel if you worry about dry skin. It has a pleasant effect if you add eucalyptus or lavander to the mix.
Also turn off and unplug any unused appliances. Often just the plugs in the outlets generate heat, let alone any motors devices have. Do not keep your drudge open. While standing in front may feel cool, its constant running is actually heating your house. And drink got coffee. This triggers your bodies internal cooling mechanisms. You get the chills and you cool down. And FYI, when out side, long sleeve cotton shirts help and jeans help keep you cool by blocking direct sunlight and, no I don't know how, but helping your nodya hair help lift the heat away from you to be carried away by the wind. This is why cattle ranchers and the like are always seen dessed head to toe. This is
a couple pieces of my summer advice. Tried and proven by a couple hundred years of Zonians.
I should say that for those of who had airconditioning, to save money, you out tin foil over all your windows and spend all daylight hours at the mall. Then you come home wbd open all the windows and doors and BBQ outside for dinner(never use your oven for any reason.). Then when you go to bed, blast the airconditioner. Then turn it off in the morning and go to the mall. Now you know why malls are so big in Az. Figuratively and literally.
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