What are you doing to combat Summer's Heat?

[1stwahine]

The past two days, 90 degrees. Today, it went up to 91 degrees. How are you handling the Summer Heat? Do you have any recommendations other than air-conditioners, fans, etc. I'm going bonkers...

Auntie Lynn aka Auntie Pupule

[kimo55]

wot summer heat?
i steh hawaii kai side.
on da ocean.
on da boat.

[Miulang]

The past two days, 90 degrees. Today, it went up to 91 degrees. How are you handling the Summer Heat? Do you have any recommendations other than air-conditioners, fans, etc. I'm going bonkers...

Auntie Lynn aka Auntie Pupule
Go buy one big block of ice, stick 'em insai da bathtub (so wen da buggah melts, not going ruin anyting) and den go sit on 'em! :D At least your okole going be nice and cool...

Keep da blinds drawn during da day, and no open da doors and windows until nighttime when cooler. You and MAMA gotta watch out for heat stroke. Drink plenty water, eat some salty food too. If get too hot in da house, go to one movie or someplace where get air conditioning.

Malama pono,
Miulang

Up here, was 82 today.

[lavagal]

I'd be out back on the hammock but the fire out by Makapuu is blowing over and messing with my asthma! Or we'd be at the Oahu Club but it's supper time!

[adrian]

Nothing so far, but maybe I'll call HFD's maintanance facility and maybe they can shoot water from their facility onto my house to cool us down :D

[808_m3]

That's not too bad. Lately, we've been dealing with upper 90s to lower 100s here in the east bay. These are definately the days where it's nice going to work in an air-conditioned office.

I usually telecommute (work at home) about once a week, but with the hot temperatures, going to work everyday for the AC is definately a nice incentive.

[1stwahine]

Miulang, LavaGal, Adrian and yeah...you too Kimo55, mahalo.

Miulang, ok, if get one block ice...the ice going stick to my okole and make the tub slippery. LOL I'll do the rest of your suggestion. I stick my head in the freezer through-out the day while MAMA yells that I look dumb. She handling the heat with no problem. Lots of water, me...iced tea. As far as going to the movies and other places...we do that too.

LavaGal, I hope your asthma gets better. With the fire and heat in Makapuu, it must be uncomfortable. Stay safe dear. Hugs to Kid I and Kid II from me! ;)

Adrian, how do you get the fire dept to hose your home. Never mind...I remember the gas leak scare.

Kimo, whatever you said, must be in regards to your boating and living in Hawaii Kai...lucky you!

Aunty Lynn

[kimo55]

Kimo, whatever you said, must be in regards to your boating and living in Hawaii Kai...lucky you!

Aunty Lynn

luck:
"preparedness meeting opportunity."

[U'ilani]

As Edna says, "Luck favors the prepared, dahling."

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We're into our second day of summer weather here in Seattle. It got up to 78 degrees today. I cooled off by turning up my air conditioner in my car on the drive home. That probably cost me about five extra bucks in gasoline.

[cezanne]

The past two days, 90 degrees. Today, it went up to 91 degrees. How are you handling the Summer Heat? Do you have any recommendations other than air-conditioners, fans, etc. I'm going bonkers...

Auntie Lynn aka Auntie Pupule
Drink plenty water.

[Menehune Man]

Sometimes I put a t-shirt in the freezer to wear when hot. Of course it's only a temporary fix, but sure feels good! :D

[adrian]

Adrian, how do you get the fire dept to hose your home. Never mind...I remember the gas leak scare.

They're a few yards away, just across a drainage canal, maybe they can use one of their trucks and spray water. LOL

Atleast tonight is kinda cool.

[EastCoastTropics]

Been real hot and humid here da past couple of days. I use AC's to cool our home. I practice golf early in the morning to avoid the humid heat. I run/workout in an airconditioned gym....drink lots of fluids....etc...

[Surfingfarmboy]

I remind myself that the 90+ degree weather is at best, around these parts anyway, a very short-lived phenomenon that is to be enjoyed for the novelty it is here. It won't be long before I'm waking up some sub-freezing morning in winter and think to myself, with the cold numbing my body, "Was it really 90 degrees here once?"

[1stwahine]

I'm ready for the heat today! Got my t-shirt in the freezer, ice water in a plastic container with a dispenser in the ice-box, a gallon of ice-tea too! Sliced watermelon and cantelope slices. If that don't do it...I'm gonna throw a tantrum in front of Christy (my daughter) until she buys me an air conditioner. LOL

Auntie Lynn

[lurkah]

I'm ready for the heat today! Got my t-shirt in the freezer
Awshucks. I was jahs going say dat walking around naked would probly help lilibit, but nemine.http://ohanalanai.com/lanai/images/smilies/chuckle.gif

[1stwahine]

Awshucks. I was jahs going say dat walking around naked would probly help lilibit, but nemine.http://ohanalanai.com/lanai/images/smilies/chuckle.gif

OMG! :eek: Mama would give me lickings with her cane! I am not a pretty sight to behold naked! *L* :p :D

Auntie Lynn

[pinakboy]

auntie get da spray bottle of ice water and fan!!

blow da fan full blast and spray ice water mist on urself!! buggah works eh!!

mo cheap den buying da commercial mister pump called Misty Mate sold at costco like this one hea: misty mate dat sold at costco befo (http://www.mistymate.com/mmp24.html)

i dunno if gettem still yet tho. my moddah call me from vegas and said she like i send mine dat i had befo. dey getting 106 degrees F!!! :eek:

[1stwahine]

Thanks everybody for some great advices. I'm making it through the day...with fun! Anybody remember a headband that was promoted by KSSK that was supposingly great for the summer's heat? Do they still make it and where can I purchase it?

Auntie Lynn

[craigwatanabe]

I think they call them scrunchies or something like that and I can attest that it doesn't work! Neither does the one that drapes around your neck for that matter.

The best I've read so far in this thread is the one by pinakboy using the spray bottle. Where you live I think it's all concrete floors right? I used to work in a shop in Kakaako with metal corrugated roofing and no vents. The windows were rusted shut (building built back in 1922) and no air flow. The hottest time was early August around 2pm. Inside the shop the temperature hit 100-degrees on average. I kept a spray bottle and like pinakboy said, I stood in front of a fan and sprayed myself with the bottle.

The net effect is creating a swamp cooler. It works and provides immediate relief. At night I would drape a towel around my neck and run a fan. You're gonna sweat anyway so let the towel catch the moisture evaporating off your skin and let the fan plus the damp towel cool you down while you sleep.

During the day take advantage of the indoor shopping malls like Kahala Mall. Buy a Jamba Juice and read the paper or as one guy does here at the Prince Kuhio Mall, he props open a text book and opens a binder and pretends to be studying. How do I know he's faking? He's got the same book opened midway practically everytime I see him and he's been doing this for over a year already.

Anyway the security guards won't kick you out if you're looking as if you're studying. But if you're just hanging around they may tell you to scoot along. Oh and make sure you have a shopping bag from one of the stores in the mall as "These tables are for the convenience of our patrons" so if you're not buying anything, get outta this mall! So you give them the impression that you are a patron that is studying for a test and they'll leave you alone with your Jamba Juice and you can cool off inside.

[Glen Miyashiro]

Pinakboy and Craig are right, the best cooling methods all use evaporation of water. Just blowing dry air around isn't going to cool you down enough, but if you can get water to evaporate off of your skin it will suck a lot of heat up in the process. That's the same as how refrigerators work - they make the Freon evaporate and suck up heat from your food inside the fridge, then they pump the Freon to the outside of the fridge and make it condense and dump the heat out into your kitchen. (Well, the first part is the same.) Of course, if you're in a room with no ventilation, eventually the room is going to get too moist and the water will stop evaporating off of your skin. So make sure to be someplace with at least a little ventilation, too.

[jdub]

a cold bud and air conditioning in a bar with a baseball game on tv have always worked for me...either that or crank up the AC in my apartment and bury myself in my work...

[btwnc2c]

Here in Dallas it's been in the high 90's but it's the freaking humidity that's the killer. Brings the heat index into the mid 100's. My family in Las Vegas and I try to top each other's "How hot it is here today" bragging (ha) rights but I keep on telling them that their heat is a dry heat whereas as with our humidity factor, ours is worse. But it's all relative in a way....hot is hot. Period.

But, draw the blinds, crank up the central ac (actually lower it). I have the ceiling fans going even the patio one if I have to go out there to do something. I'll also keep the circulating tower fans going in the rooms. Sometimes I don't know if it's just the heat or another hot flash going on. :D

Don't cook unless you absolutely have to! I do a lot of take-out or food delivery. ;) But I do keep a lot of cold food in the 'fridge to munch on. Cold snack foods in the 'fridge and freezer. Okay, maybe some of them are fattening, junk food but... LOTS of water (I had 3 5-gal. bottles delivered yesterday), juices and I'm an iced coffee addict.

Don't venture outdoors unless you absolutely have to and stay indoors. Like what I'm doing today...doing mindless things on the computer. :p

Wearing the least amount of clothing is good. Okay, then the lightest. I like the t-shirt in the freezer thing. In fact, I think I'm going to throw some clothes in the freezer right now. Ciao!

[craigwatanabe]

This is why I tell my kids when it gets too cold in Volcano (upper Puna) to appreciate the cold. Plus it's more fun to try and keep warm than it is to keep cool. Snuggly and bubbly and cuddly stuff like that.

What's really strange though (and I'm trying to figure out a way to do this on demand) is how in the middle of a hot day, when you shi shi you get the shivers and you feel this coldness for the moment! Imagine being able to keep that cold feeling during the hot days! Is it a matter of how your mind controls your body?

Hmmm....nah just buy one air conditioner. Only $88 at Home Depot.

[1stwahine]

Thanks Craig, I'll go check it out when Antonio (my granson) goes home. I really enjoy the t-shirts in the freezer and water in the spray bottle with the fan. I especially like the "no cooking" part! Once again, mahalo to everybody!

Auntie Lynn

[lurkah]

I really enjoy the t-shirts in the freezer
Not to mention the "special effects" those frozen t-shirts have on certain parts of the body too. http://allthingshawaiian.com/lurkah/smileys/smileyeyebrows.gif

[1stwahine]

Not to mention the "special effects" those frozen t-shirts have on certain parts of the body too. http://allthingshawaiian.com/lurkah/smileys/smileyeyebrows.gif

Lurkah! :rolleyes: Dey not supposed to know "our" secret! :p Ok, cats out of the bag...check out yesterday's entry at my blog, "Chi Chi Balls ..." ;) http://www.hawaiistories.com/lynn


Auntie Lynn

[lurkah]

Lurkah! :rolleyes: Dey not supposed to know "our" secret! :p Ok, cats out of the bag...check out yesterday's entry at my blog, "Chi Chi Balls ..." ;)
Wow, nevah take much to let you spill da beans on yourself. Must be you really wanted to share that info with everybody else but was too shy to say so. :D

[1stwahine]

Wow, nevah take much to let you spill da beans on yourself. Must be you really wanted to share that info with everybody else but was too shy to say so. :D


You too much! ;) I'm far from being shy...ok, this time I was. Yeah right! :eek:

Auntie Lynn

[craigwatanabe]

That reminds me of a sentence out of the book Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pyncheon...Colder than the nipple on a Witch's Tit...describing extreme coldness.

Home Depot is also selling portable AC's for under $400. Overpriced for only 5,000 btu output but hey it travels from room to room.

So far here in Keaau, it hasn't gotten too hot (yet) I just bought an 8500 btu ac from Home Depot and am awaiting installation. Haven't had the need yet and I'm such a procrastinator I'll probably be putting it in late one hot evening instead of burning up this message board. :D

By the way the remote control from a Kenmore AC unit will work on LG air conditioners.

[1stwahine]

Ahhh...air conditioner! Not central, only in my room. Maybe get one for the parlor. I still using the frozen t-shirts! :p

Auntie Lynn

[craigwatanabe]

Put some bandaids on cuz Frost Bites :eek:

[lurkah]

I still using the frozen t-shirts! :p
Mo bettah cool it wit da frozen t-shirts bumbai dem frozen "tassle balls" might fall off. http://allthingshawaiian.com/lurkah/smileys/smileylaughevil.gif

[Miulang]

Mo bettah cool it wit da frozen t-shirts bumbai dem frozen "tassle balls" might fall off. http://allthingshawaiian.com/lurkah/smileys/smileylaughevil.gif
Ho, bruddah, you get one pilau mind, anden! All Tita trying to do is stay cool. And because you live in da Boonies, you know it's tougher to try to get cool den it is to stay warm...you can oni take off so much clothes to try to stay cool befoa dey going throw you insai da calaboose for indecent exposure! :eek:

Eh, I tink I going make manapua for da picnic. You like me Fedex you some?

Miulang

[lurkah]

Ho, bruddah, you get one pilau mind, anden! All Tita trying to do is stay cool. And because you live in da Boonies, you know it's tougher to try to get cool den it is to stay warm...you can oni take off so much clothes to try to stay cool befoa dey going throw you insai da calaboose for indecent exposure! :eek:
Dang maybe I wen go bachi myself. http://ohanalanai.com/lanai/images/smilies/worried.gif Da beeg A/C unit we get dat cools down da whole living room area started making high pitched squealing and deep rumbling noises last night so I had to shut um down...and we stay borderline 100 degrees right now. http://ohanalanai.com/lanai/images/smilies/ani-cry.gif


Eh, I tink I going make manapua for da picnic. You like me Fedex you some?
Eh no ack eh! http://ohanalanai.com/lanai/images/smilies/sticktongue.gif

[Miulang]

Dang maybe I wen go bachi myself. http://ohanalanai.com/lanai/images/smilies/worried.gif Da beeg A/C unit we get dat cools down da whole living room area started making high pitched squealing and deep rumbling noises last night so I had to shut um down...and we stay borderline 100 degrees right now. http://ohanalanai.com/lanai/images/smilies/ani-cry.gif
Eh no ack eh! http://ohanalanai.com/lanai/images/smilies/sticktongue.gif
Was oni in da 70s dis side of da mountains. You right. I tink you wen bachi yourself good. I dunno...maybe instead of making manapua on Saturday, maybe I should make one onolicious Dream Cake or maybe some gien doi? Wat you tink, eh bruddah? :D Too bad you going miss 'em dis year. Neva mine. Going catch up in LV in Sept., yeah? Hopefully going cool down in LV by da time we get there. This week had 100 degree+ kine temperatures!

Miulang

[jdub]

Colder than the nipple on a Witch's Tit...describing extreme coldness.


i heard it as "colder than a witch's tit in a brass bra"...and "colder than a well digger's a**hole"...but i've always liked "colder than a nekkid eskimo"...

[pinakboy]

ta taas, hoo has, su sus, chi chis... dang all dese headlight images...
u can get hurt and poke ur eyes out! :eek: :D lol

[btwnc2c]

... dang all dese headlight images...
u can get hurt and poke ur eyes out! :eek: :D lol

See...you guys only talk about cars, sports...you no need get one close-up...bird's eye view enough anden.

[adrian]

I'm in our lanai enjoying what little winds we have.

The only way this could be better is if my laptop wasn't so dang hot, because its burning my lap!

[Palama Kid]

I remember opening my mouth last month and bragging about the comfortable weather . . . um, sumpin about "the temperatures being below 80°". But last week, it got into triple digits and stayed there for a few days. Bay Area represent . . . yeah, right. Bachi.

What I did was aided by the "Spare the Air" days' free mass transit all over the Bay Area. I rode Caltrain / BART up to San Francisco and spent the day in relatively cool SF, and I caught the local buses to nearby malls and theatres.

My car being in the repair shop prevented me from driving anyway, so access to free public transportation was fortuitous.

While hydrating & taking cool showers and drying off nekkid under my living room fan helped, I'll have to try the "t-shirt in da freezer" next time.