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Spooge
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Ok Southerner's...I need your help
#5888384 - 07/22/06 06:13 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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I'm in B.C. and this week we are hitting record highs. Now, I love the hot weather, and god do I wish I could be at the lake, but unfortunetely, I'm working all this weekend. I do tough work and I'm on nights, 7pm-7am.
Today was like 33 C and I just got of work at 7am. I had so much trouble sleeping all day...I maybe got an hour. And now I'm due back for another 12 hour shift pretty soon here. My question is...
Tommorrow is going to be even hotter and I absoulutely need some sleep. I already got 3 fans going in the room and one of those thick pull down blinds, so the sun isn't getting in. What else can I do to help with sleeping in the heat?
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Re: Ok Southerner's...I need your help [Re: Spooge]
#5888391 - 07/22/06 06:14 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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1. A/C 2. Cool rag on the head.
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Spooge
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Re: Ok Southerner's...I need your help [Re: RandalFlagg]
#5888397 - 07/22/06 06:15 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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God, do I wish I had some A/C. One of the best inventions!
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Spooge
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Re: Ok Southerner's...I need your help [Re: Spooge]
#5888404 - 07/22/06 06:16 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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And I'm so damn cranky right now. Gotta go work in this shite in heavy clothes....it's gonna suck.
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Re: Ok Southerner's...I need your help [Re: Spooge]
#5888413 - 07/22/06 06:18 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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I don't have a/c either.. I know it's been really hot lately. I keep a fan in the window in my room at night. It's about the same size as the window. There are 2 windows in the room, so having a fan in one brings in a stready stream of fresh and and the other open window sucks air out.
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Re: Ok Southerner's...I need your help [Re: Spooge]
#5888427 - 07/22/06 06:20 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Quote:
entityexperiment said: God, do I wish I had some A/C. One of the best inventions!
I have central air. Oh my God is it heaven. I don't even go outside anymore. I've just sat inside on the computer all summer.
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Re: Ok Southerner's...I need your help [Re: Spooge]
#5888433 - 07/22/06 06:21 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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check CVS/walmart/etc. for a/c I got one from CVS last year for under $80.
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Spooge
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Re: Ok Southerner's...I need your help [Re: CosmicFool]
#5888458 - 07/22/06 06:25 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Actually, yea, that's a very good idea. I've heard our walmart has some cheap A/Cs. Thanks bud.
Damn you randal! heh. Central is key though. I'm actually looking into buying a house, and in the area I'm looking, almost all of them come with a central air conditioning system. It's an absoulute must.
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Re: Ok Southerner's...I need your help [Re: Spooge]
#5888466 - 07/22/06 06:26 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Here in Holland is a heatwave too: 30+'C without relief.
I have a simple solution: sleep naked on your bed without anything covering you. If you do this you will get an equilibrium between sweating and maintaining body temperature which will make it bearable, but even small briefs can throw off the balance and turn what could be a good night's sleep into a sweatfest.
If the temperature is above 27'C you won't get any chills, thats why I rather have 28'C in my room than 23'C because then you are somewhere inbetween using sheets and not.
You'll have to leave a door or window ajar because you will sweat a lot though you feel dry and you'll wake up in the dampness of a tropical rainforest. I drink an extra liter (water) before bedtime, just for sweating it out.
If you do it like this I need no fan at all, but one small fan will likely be enough. Don't drink alcohol because you'll sweat like a stoner in the FBI building, and it won't even give relief.
I've got sleeping in hot weather down to a science
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Re: Ok Southerner's...I need your help [Re: eris]
#5888626 - 07/22/06 07:23 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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god, it would be horrible it texas without a/c, weve had over 100F for a month now..
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Re: Ok Southerner's...I need your help [Re: supra]
#5888647 - 07/22/06 07:32 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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yeah im right there with you supra. and the humidity makes it feel like 110F, im not to up on my celsius but i think thats nearing 40C
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Re: Ok Southerner's...I need your help [Re: Spooge]
#5888662 - 07/22/06 07:37 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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What's up, Entity! Danksis just read this and told me tosuggest to you another good technique that works really well. If you have a good fan, you can dampen your sheets enough that they're not soaked, but just damp and the fans will dry then, but it'll give you a cooling period. A mist bottle works really well, too. If you wake up feeling gross, just mist yourself and it cools your body down, with the help of the fan.
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Re: Ok Southerner's...I need your help [Re: blissedout]
#5889968 - 07/23/06 09:17 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Hey, I know this was like 3 pages back, but I've been at work for 12 hours and there was some good ideas.
Wiccan, yea, I was sleeping totally nekkid. hehe. There was no other way it could of been done. The room only has one window and not much of a breeze can make it through with the sunblocker/shade thingy....remember, I'm trying to sleep through the hottest and brightest part of the day. Still, I set a fan in front of the window to try and draw a breeze in.
Drinking water before bed is a good idea though. It's crazy hot there though hey? Gotta love global warming. 
And Blissed, damn good idea bud! That would totally do some good. I'm off to bed in the next 15 min and I'm totally going to do that up.
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Re: Ok Southerner's...I need your help [Re: Spooge]
#5889977 - 07/23/06 09:20 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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psh. Where I live it was 107 yesterday.
I would kill to live in a climate like yours.
so maybe you could sleep easier knowing that there are much hotter places in the world, and people there sleep just fine.
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Re: Ok Southerner's...I need your help [Re: DoctorJ]
#5889993 - 07/23/06 09:33 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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It was 114 here yesterday. It fucking sucked.
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due to my shit AC, I go to sleep in boxers, no covers, and i'm really high.
that's about the only way I can do it
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Re: Ok Southerner's...I need your help [Re: zSDMF]
#5890116 - 07/23/06 10:30 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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I'm in Texas, and i drive a car with no A/C. I suggest you all stop being faggots. That said, i cannot survive in climates below 50F.
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Re: Ok Southerner's...I need your help [Re: Spooge]
#5890130 - 07/23/06 10:35 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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first off i dont think anyone south of the mason-dixon line even knows what 30C is. second buy an a/c. the cheap ones at wal-mart are just that, cheap ones. one of my friends got one and it didnt last 2 weeks, maybe it was a lemon tho but still he got a new one bc its walmart.
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Re: Ok Southerner's...I need your help [Re: Audi0]
#5890182 - 07/23/06 10:56 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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I suggest he just open a few windows
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Re: Ok Southerner's...I need your help [Re: Spooge]
#5890367 - 07/23/06 12:24 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Buy a window AC unit for your bed room. That'll help. Not too expensive either.
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