Extreme heat + millions without power = Dangerous situation

I'm curious how long before people start flippin' out?

as well as dropping like flies.

wow fuck ....12 people dead and no power sheeet for the AC's..what a disaster....that's the worst and most scary news I have ever heard friend...NOT!

There are other places where this is a daily reality friend... and most people cope and just do the best they can.

Yea I know. I could keep my apartment at 85 degrees and be comfortable and when people come over my place its like they are going to die.

If you have lost electricty or lose electricity during this heat wave, here are some tips on "How to keep cool without electricity" from someone whose parents grew up in southern Arizona before air conditioning was invented.

Do you have any friends/family that have a basement?

Just like a natural cave, basements tend to stay cool independently of whether or not the air conditioning is running in the house above. If some basement space is available, temporarily relocate there.

If you still have water service to your house, buy a small blow-up kiddy pool for your backyard and go out there and take a dip every so often to cool down. You can refill the pool up with cool water as often as you need it.

Go to the dollar store and get some empty plastic spray bottles. Fill them up with water and keep one in each room of the house. Spritz yourself with water over your face neck and arms each time you think about it and the evaporation of the water off your skin will cool your core body temperature down.

To sleep more comfortably when it is warm, place a cot, camp bed, pool chaise lounge, or banana chair out on your back patio or porch. Soak 2 bed sheets with water, wring them out, and and put them in a tub next to the cot/bed on the porch/patio. When you are ready to sleep, lay down on the cot/bed on top of a dry bed sheet and put one of the damp sheets over you. This allows the evaporative process to transfer heat from you to the sheet and cool you down so you can drift off to sleep. The second damp sheet is for use later in the night.

Lastly, drink plenty of fluids, avoid alcohol, avoid caffeine, take several cool/cold showers a day, be inactive during the worst heat of the day (do whatever chores need to be done in the evening or very early morning).

Being too warm wears a body down, no matter what age you are. With so many people without electricity, casualties of the extreme heat are likely to increase dramatically. The very young (babies and toddlers) and the elderly are the most sensitive to heat extremes. People need to do whatever they can to stay cool and help others around them (children, elderly family members and/or neighbors) to stay cool.

There's something missing from your equation, here let me correct it:

Extreme heat + millions without power in city = Dangerous situation

Why isn't this pinned!

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Appears S.C. @ 115 right now may be the hot spot.

Some summers are just hotter than others.

They will restore the power in the DC area rather quickly as there are crews from all over already en route.

Meanwhile, just keep wetting yourselves down. Get a spray bottle and mist until the power is restored.

Think like children and start making paper fans, big, small and pass them around, spread the love to make the cool winds blow. Xxx

Oxx

Baghdad still doesn't have an adequate power grid, 10 years after the United States destroyed it using lies as our justification.

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They survive. We can too.

I don't get it. Have we been conditioned to need air conditioners? Where I live, 110+temps are the norm during the summer. Open windows at night, close to trap in cool air in the morning while blocking light, peraps a fan, and totally comfortable. Heck, that's what I'm doing right now. Have a swamp cooler but never bother with it.

When the power has been out, I've lost food in the fridge when it's been out for extended periods, but nobody dies for crying out loud. Well, other than being extreamly bored from no tv/internet. But otherwise....

So help me understand. Every year I hear about heat doom, but we've obviously been thriving on this planet long before AC was around....

People just so enjoy bitching.

One excuse is as good as another.

Yea americans are so pathethic it's unbelievable. I don't think more than 5% here have ACs and we had a week or two with temps up to 38C. Not the end of the world, i personally like to go out for a walk when the temps are 33-34C here - most sheeple hide at home and it's quite refreshing.

People didn't even have electricity until a little over 100 years ago. Rural people didn't even have that for another couple decades. No cell phones either.

And yet, they survived. For thousands of years. Amazing.

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If its the States then it makes no difference. They live in dark sweltering ignorance anyway.

As long as I have AC, it will be cool in my house.

I detest the heat, but I live in Arkansas which is very muggy.

same here i leave mine at 85 especially when its 100 outside.people act like you have them in a sauna