What to do about this hotness?

For me - I am used to 110 deg. f in India. Of course in India we have houses well ventilated - not like usa where everything is closed. no scope for air to come in. yesterday night it was hot here in detroit - we used fans and managed. Regarding taking care of one's health -- drink cold water whenever required and go out for walk after 8.30 pm. not before that. House is airconditioned and temp doesn't come down 80 deg f though we set it at 70 deg.f.

Oh, that's too hot and that's really hard for you. It is a lot better if you have air conditioner and fan before this hotness. In this climate, wear cotton clothes(sleevelessand shorts), drink lot's of water and you could stay at malls or any cold place near you. I hope you have a friend who can lend you a fan. :)

While your experincing hot weather here on the west coast it is cooler than normal we had to build a fire today as it is so cold. As to cooling down. First am not sure where you live if your in town or in the country. During the day keep your blinds or curtains closed. At night if you can open doors and windows until early morning them close and keep the curtains and things closed it keeps it cooler. Allow only ONE door to go in and out of and make it where you retain most the coolness you got from the night air. Second take a shower and put on a wet t-shirt. Take a wet towel and put over the fan every little bit. Drink cool drinks with ice. Get out a sprinkler or even a hose and spray the kids. Also water down the roof and sides of house it helps. Run through the sprinkler or have a water fight. Drink a lot of water, avoid soda they are actually dehydrating. Get some ice cream. Eat cold salads and sandwitches, Cottage Cheese etc. Hope this helps and if you can send me some of that heat and I will pray God sends you some rain and cooler weather.

First off, I hope the temperature has gotten better since this posting. Actually, we here in the Pacific Northwest could not relate to the heat being experienced in the rest of the continent. We have been through some unseasonably cold weather. It was even raining here the past few days. And yesterday, I saw a whole pallet of fans at the local grocery store being sold for $12, but nobody was buying it.

This heat is just so terrible right now. I understand where you are coming from. You would think the stores would have enough stock of air conditioners in case this would happen. That stinks sorry you are suffering in this heat.

With this hot weather a great thing would be if you can go swimming in a pool. But you say not having a pool. Is there any public pool in your city? In any case what is left is to have a little patience. Today I heard on TV the temperature will be lower in a week aproximately. :)

There are lots of things people can do to keep cool when there's no pool. -Drink lots of WATER. -Pat yourself down with cold wet towels -Put the sprinkler on the lawn and run through it -Buy a kiddie pool, and sit in it. -Take a cool shower -Take a cool bath -Have water balloon fights -Throw buckets of water at eachother

I'm from England, and we have had only one day like that that I can recall this summer. And it was pretty unbearably hot. But much of this summer has been rain-sodden, which is pretty normal for the UK. We had a lovely spring, but once July kicked in, there was a lot of rain, and boy did it rain. But we will be having a return of summer sun this weekend according to the forecasters. And then maybe some hot days. I seem to recall some years back it reached 100 degrees Fahrenheit in London area in August: one newspaper spelled it out in big letters on the front page; it was a big deal. We have gotten used to very mixed summers over here.

The weather has been very unusual in many parts of the world this year. Even places in the far north get hot. I have been reading about the heat wave coming in pushing temperatures way beyond seasonal. Yes, we need to be prepared with the facilities necessary manage through.

Do you have a sprinkler? I would suggest maybe doing that, and drinking lots of water, trying to stay inside, eating more coldish foods, and trying not to operate that oven as much. I've never had to really deal with it too bad at home, but there was one year at a place I worked the A/C went out and it was 90 degrees outside 110 inside the store. Then when the A/C worked we had to wear a coat, then WOOP it went kaput again and we had to close the store down. No neighbors have a pool?

Wow, I know how you feel down here in Florida it feels about 100 degrees as well. This weekend was horrible we went to the zoo, since my kids wanted to go and we were dying. Luckily for them, they have a small water park so they were able to cool of, but my hubby and I were dying. I don't know how many bottles of water we drank at every water fountain we would refill. I don't know how much of this heat I could actually take. Normally during the weekend we cool off at the pool and during the week their at school and my hubby and I are at work. For the kids and me it's not that bad since we are mostly indoor, but my husband mostly works outdoor and most of the time he comes home soaked in sweat and burned.

Well, my suggestion is to go in a public building with air conditioned, a library as example, so you can breath fresh air for some hours. The problem would stay during the night. The solution is the general way of fight against high temperatures. Open all the windows in the early morning and close all the shutters in the hottest hours. In the night open again and try to "move" the air. Last solution: do you have any friend living in the mountains?

If you are near a mall or a fast food restaurant make use of the facility. I think the best way to overcome the heat is for you to go out early in the day to some center with activity for the kids and adults and come back later in the day when the sun has set. If not try to find a woody area. Places with a lot of tress tend to be cool. Specially if there is a breeze and the cool shade would give you that cool feeling specially if you brought something cool to eat like water melons and ice cream. It would also be fun for the kids to play outside. Hope I helped.

Just try to relax. It's so hot here in Baltimore right now. Our air conditioner hasn't been working right because of the heat and I just went to the 7-Eleven and their air conditioner is hot. I guess a lot of buildings here weren't meant to stand 100 degree or more weather like in the South and Southwest. Maybe you should try to buy some ice, sit it behind the fan, sit the fan in the middle of a room and you'll probably feel cooler.

Ice cubes, popsicles, anything cold will help keep cool. Im indoors right now with the a/c on and I cant do any cleaning because its still too hot. You can go to the mall and then you can enjoy the a/c there but then when you get out and come home, it'll be worse for you. Keeping your feet in cold water might help also. Some study says that our body temperature is determined by the temperature on our elbows....so keep your elbows in cold, icy water.....you have nothing to lose!! Good luck and cheer up, they say it should be over next week.

There isn't much you can do to help with the heat. One very good thing, though, is drinking water, not just any drink, but water. Water will help keep you hydrated and will always help with you keeping cool, especially if you're sweating a lot. But also try going outside in shade, because if you don't have an a/c in your house that's working, inside your house is probably hotter then it is outside.