For My Northwest Coast Friends:

[judifilksign]

Home school journal topic of the day:

"Imagine that it is quite literally hot enough outside to fry an egg on the sidewalk.  How do you plan to keep cool?"

Comments

[jenrose]

Sleep downstairs, sit in front of running fan, give up and go to my mother's house and jump in her pool and enjoy her AC.

[maiac.livejournal.com]

If you get any really good ideas, please post them. I'll pass them along to my (non-LJ) friends who are sweltering in the heat wave.

I favor the idea I got from a mystery novel set in 1920s Melbourne, Australia: if you don't have air conditioning, set a tub of ice in front of a fan so the fan blows cold air around the room.

[jeffreycornish.livejournal.com]

Yep. A poor man's swamp cooler. Another possible setup is a very damp towel hung in front/behind a box fan. Basically you want to exchange warm air an coolish water for cooler air and evaporated water. Starting with ice instead of liquid water is a bonus

[fuzzyvanman.livejournal.com]

Sell fried eggs. Use proceeds for air conditioner. :)

Why doesn't LJ have "LIKE" feature ala Facebook?

[maedbh7.livejournal.com]

Beat all my suggestions "Wear ice helmet on head to keep brain and face from melting off"; "sleep in shower - cold water only"; "burrow under house"; "remove to the BatCave"; "theatre time!"; "browsing at the MegaMart!"; "hide in fridge"; "steal Apu's squishee machine". -H...

[judifilksign.livejournal.com]

For the win!

[carmiel.livejournal.com]

Best one we have is put top sheet in the washing machine and do a rinse cycle. The spining gets the excess water out. Then sleep under the cool, damp sheet at night.

[madtom-o-bedlam.livejournal.com]

If you have a water bed, turn off the heat and remove the sheets. It becomes a nice thing for stealing heat from the body. Then spend all of your time laying on it.

[infobits.livejournal.com]

Fan upstairs to blow hot air out + fan downstairs to suck less hot air in
= chimney effect of air moving through condo.

At least until someone figures out WHY the AC keeps flipping the circuit breaker! ARGHH!!