How are you beating the heat?

Hello shamsta and welcome to myLot. I live in Columbia so we are sharing some of the same temperatures the last couple of weeks. Our AC went out last Friday and it was so miserable. But it has cooled down enough at night to open the windows and deck door. That took the temperature here in the house down from 90 to 80 by morning with all the fans going. That 2 ceiling fans, 1 box fan, and 1 osculating table fan,3 small 12 inch fans. The moving air helps. I close off the windows on the southwest side of the house as son as the temperature starts to climb. We got our AC going before the 100 degree weather started Tues. I have set here at the computer in the past with my feet in cool water and drinking ice water with lemon in it to help keep cool. I also have a sock filled with rice that I keep in the freezer and when it gets really hot I put that around my neck. I keep the AC set at 82 all the time so that when we have to go out it won't feel quit as bad. It still feels bad just some better.

By staying indoors with the ceiling fans going. I'll have to put the AC on soon before my husband gets home as he can't stand the heat. I don't mind it at all but I can't stand the aircon nor the cold.

It's 70+ and comfortable out here on SF Bay, but hell, that's why we moved here from Philly. Just got back last week from a coast to coast road trip (13 states in 3 weeks), and boy was it hot. The high desert and midwest were bad enough, but that East coast humidity was god-awful. The worst was the Bronx. We went to a Yankees game and it was 101 on the street, 103 in the stands and who knows what it was on the field. The worst part was getting on the subway outside Yankee Stadium after the game. 50,000 people emptying out at once, a good number of them getting on the subway. It was shoulder to shoulder waiting to get to the pay gates and it had to be 115 in the underground concourse. Everybody was soaked in sweat and a couple people fainted. I've had enough severe summers and winters, hence it's the BayArea for me.

Not that hot here in FL but still pretty darn hot! We run two full ac units. Ceiling fans in every room and some floor fans too! And I keep the freezer stocked with pop sickles!!I don't leave the house during they day except to check the mail unless I absolutely have to. Mid June through August is a killer.