Heat wave in US

Bobcat wrote:
wrote:
I didn't know it got really hot in Canada!! Mooch will probably be okay
as long as he has fresh water.
Our cats are lounging around also oblivious to the electric meter,
which is probably about to spin off the pole. :-)
Sherry

The forecast says that here in Toronto it's hitting 97 F today, and
again tomorrow. About Mooch, he gets a fresh container of cold water in
this weather every few hours with ice cubes! Funny, though. Cats are
descendents of desert creatures and don't drink much water - but
apparently when they do they store it up, as does Mooch. Oh please -
don't bring up the subject of hydro meter and the bill that's sure to
follow! There's an incentive plan here in which you get a discount if
you use less electricity. Do without our air conditioners these days?
Har!

I try to conserve as much as I can. I never use the dryer, I hang
everything out. Try to be mindful of the lights. But I cannot do
without A/C, no way. And I use a lot of electricity watering outside. I
can't just let everything die out there.

Sherry

Pat wrote:
"Bobcat" wrote in

wrote:
I didn't know it got really hot in Canada!!

The Okanagan Valley can also get scorching hot.

Do without our air conditioners these days? Har!

The heat index here has been soaring into the hundreds for over a week, with
no end in sight, high humidity too. Not much fun when you have no a/c.

Have you ever seen those neckerchief things that have silicone stuff in
them? You soak them in water, and the beads swell up and keep the thing
wet. Some ladies' club was making them for the GI's in Iraq & selling
them as fundraisers. They are *great* to keep cool. Something about
keeping your neck cool & moist makes an amazing difference.
Want me to send you one?

Sherry

We are headed for 104 today, 106 tomorrow and 105 the next day. That should
create enough of a pressure variant to drag in an ocean breeze by Wednesday.

Not that I have any intention of going outdoors in the heat. I'm not
normally a morning person but when you have to do anything you want to do by
10AM including wearing out a 9 month old Border Collie you get up early.

The cats think we are crazy to want them in at night. They would much
rather go out after dark and come in when it gets hot.

Jo
"Ann" wrote in message
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Everyone be careful in this heat. I saw on the weather report this morning
most of the U.S.A. will be having a heat wave. Here in Connecticut we are
expected to have temperatures 95 to 100 with high humidity.

Ann

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Have you ever seen those neckerchief things that have silicone stuff in
them? You soak them in water, and the beads swell up and keep the thing
wet. Some ladies' club was making them for the GI's in Iraq & selling
them as fundraisers. They are *great* to keep cool. Something about
keeping your neck cool & moist makes an amazing difference.
Want me to send you one?

Sounds great, Sherry. I've been keeping a wet towel around my neck but it
doesn't help very much.

wrote:
Pat wrote:
"Bobcat" wrote in

wrote:
I didn't know it got really hot in Canada!!

The Okanagan Valley can also get scorching hot.

Do without our air conditioners these days? Har!

The heat index here has been soaring into the hundreds for over a week, with
no end in sight, high humidity too. Not much fun when you have no a/c.

Have you ever seen those neckerchief things that have silicone stuff in
them? You soak them in water, and the beads swell up and keep the thing
wet. Some ladies' club was making them for the GI's in Iraq & selling
them as fundraisers. They are *great* to keep cool. Something about
keeping your neck cool & moist makes an amazing difference.
Want me to send you one?

Sherry


Sherry,

Any links where I can purchase one of these?

Randy
http://www.crmartin.zoomshare.com

On Sun, 16 Jul 2006 14:41:46 -0400, "Ann" wrote:

Everyone be careful in this heat. I saw on the weather report this morning
most of the U.S.A. will be having a heat wave. Here in Connecticut we are
expected to have temperatures 95 to 100 with high humidity.

Ann


Going to try something new here seems Road news server is being a
pain

Same here it has been over 100 everyday with humidity factors
ranging near 120's

"Randy" wrote in message
news
wrote:
Pat wrote:

Have you ever seen those neckerchief things that have silicone stuff in
them? You soak them in water, and the beads swell up and keep the thing
wet. Some ladies' club was making them for the GI's in Iraq & selling
them as fundraisers. They are *great* to keep cool. Something about
keeping your neck cool & moist makes an amazing difference.
Want me to send you one?

Sherry


Sherry,

Any links where I can purchase one of these?

Randy
http://www.crmartin.zoomshare.com

Do a search on "neck cooler". Some of the sites even tell you how to make
them.

Sandy

"Pat" wrote in message
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"Bobcat" wrote in

wrote:
I didn't know it got really hot in Canada!!

The Okanagan Valley can also get scorching hot.

Do without our air conditioners these days? Har!

The heat index here has been soaring into the hundreds for over a week,
with no end in sight, high humidity too. Not much fun when you have no
a/c.



I grew up in Washington DC in the fifties when almost no one had central AC
(or car AC). On the really hot nights mom would put sheets in the washer to
get them wet and then to spin most of the water out. We would go to sleep
on the floor in the basement covered with the damp sheets.

Then as the upstairs would start to cool off we would wake up and wander
upstairs to our beds.

If you couldn't get heat stroke any other way, there was always summer
church "camp meetings" and tent revivals.

Now I wonder how we survived. But I know plenty of people still do.

Jo

"Matthew" wrote in message
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Florida 101 with humidity 125 heat factor in parking lot 145
Major caution out for Central Florida It was like this for the last 2
days

That explains why I haven't heard from my sister in a while. Their pool
isn't very big, but she will be in it. Can't use the computer there.

Jo

On Sun 16 Jul 2006 03:47:56p, Randy wrote in rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
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Any links where I can purchase one of these?

I saw this nifty gadget on an infomercial this morning. Today this
would be a welcome relief. But I think I'll just stay inside in the
AC.

http://www.sharperimage.com/us/en/ca.../sku__SI758SL2


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Cheryl