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07-23-2011, 05:01 AM
#31
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Posts: 430
Swamp coolers do not work when the Dewpoint gets 55 and above, then you feel the humidity in the house. We use ours until July then switch to a/c . What I like about the swamp cooler is, your windows have to be open and a door can stay open and the house is still cool. Right now Im in OHio with this humidity and feel hotter than when I am in Phoenix. When your old like me, you can only take off so many clothes before the clothing police might pick you up!! - Joan
07-23-2011, 05:11 AM
#32
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: Bucks County PA
Posts: 1,241
I was a living historian and did Civil War reenactments for years. It's pretty hot when you're wearing a heavy wig and corset, chemise, 2 petticoats, a hoop, and a long sleeved dress.
We would have lessons in the heat of the afternoon. We called it the Shady Tree Academy. We would sit in the shade and teach young girls stitching: how to sew on buttons, to sew a hem, sew patchwork, and knit or crochet.
And we kept cool with our own secret hidden individual cooling units. We each had a big tin bowl, a foot or more in diameter. (They were pretty cheap in the kitchenware department. I think they use them in restaurants for making salads.) We put water and ice in them and then sat and slipped our bare feet in. Ooooohhhhhh.... It was cold! That really kept us cool. And no one knew, because they were hidden under our hoop skirts.
So my cooling tip is, when it's oppressive, soak your feet. And cool damp cloths on your pulse points at wrist and neck really cool you down too.
We would have lessons in the heat of the afternoon. We called it the Shady Tree Academy. We would sit in the shade and teach young girls stitching: how to sew on buttons, to sew a hem, sew patchwork, and knit or crochet.
And we kept cool with our own secret hidden individual cooling units. We each had a big tin bowl, a foot or more in diameter. (They were pretty cheap in the kitchenware department. I think they use them in restaurants for making salads.) We put water and ice in them and then sat and slipped our bare feet in. Ooooohhhhhh.... It was cold! That really kept us cool. And no one knew, because they were hidden under our hoop skirts.
So my cooling tip is, when it's oppressive, soak your feet. And cool damp cloths on your pulse points at wrist and neck really cool you down too.
07-23-2011, 05:18 AM
#33
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: Phoenix, AZ.
Posts: 1,342
Originally Posted by Prissnboot
I live in Houston and the only time I love the humidity is when I come home from the desert, like Las Vegas. And for you Phoenixites or Phoenixians (or whatever they call people who live there), it doesn't help us to hear "yes, but it's a DRY heat". Hot is hot!
07-23-2011, 06:25 AM
#35
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Posts: 434
What a great tip! I don't have air conditioning and it is in the mid-90s here right now (and for the next week). I only quilt late at night and early in the morning otherwise my iron and lights heat up the room too much! LOL.
07-23-2011, 07:56 AM
#39
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Rural Kansas
Posts: 640
Originally Posted by Kitsie
My worst heat memory:
Melbourne, Australia, 1968. 9th month of pregnancy. Riding to last Dr. checkup on diesel bus, NO A/C, windows only could open 4", stop-and-go city traffic. Temperature 114!!! (No A/C in houses either!)
Melbourne, Australia, 1968. 9th month of pregnancy. Riding to last Dr. checkup on diesel bus, NO A/C, windows only could open 4", stop-and-go city traffic. Temperature 114!!! (No A/C in houses either!)
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