I'm melting!

[pepper24]

Enjoy the warmth while it lasts.

[Lucky boy]

I just hang out in the basement, a fan is more than enough to keep it cool down there. I lived in Red Deer for a summer and I was on the top floor of a small apartment building. It was an oven, the window was useless. I remember complaining and someone told me an idea. Now before I go on, this is a little bit out there, but it might be the solution for you.

If you are having troubles sleeping at night due to the heat, take your bed sheets and soak it in water in your bath tub. Then squeeze out as much water as you can out of the sheets so it is just moist. Put it on your bed and enjoy the sleep. It made my bed cool enough so I could at least fall asleep. By the time morning rolls around, the sheets would be completely dry.

Disclamer

- If you have a weak bladder, you may experience some wetness that has nothing to do with the moist sheets

[Resolute 14]

This is stupid:

http://www.weatherunderground.com/global/CA_AB.html

37 in Elk Island
35 in Beaverlodge
34 in Fort MacMurray
35 in Medicine Hat

This is not "good weather"

http://www.weatherunderground.com/gl...ons/71891.html

40/104 in Lytton, BC

[tvp2003]

Originally Posted by Mccree

Someone told me that if you place a fan in your window it will suck out the hot air in your room. I do not beleive it but it might be worth a try.

I used to do this... however, I had the fan blowing in (i.e. taking the cooler outside air, and blowing it into the house). When it is 35 degrees outside, do you actually point the fan outside and have it blow out the window (i.e. to suck the hot air out)?

[Bobblehead]

Originally Posted by pepper24

Enjoy the warmth while it lasts.

I'd trade this for -20 any day of the week, and twice on Sundays. At least I could put on another sweater.

[Eddie Bronze]

Enjoy the warmth? How, pray tell, does one do that? About 30 minutes ago I fell asleep and just now woke up and I'm completely soaked in sweat. That's not enjoyable, that's disgusting.

And also; fotze, don't bother responding to what I just wrote.

[ken0042]

I just got home- I was out all day. I was happy to see my little window A/C chuging away- keeping the house at a nice 23 degrees.

[Devils'Advocate]

To whomever said the humidity makes it 10x worse - I agree!! I'm in Ottawa and walk 10 minutes to work every morning. Monday I was running a wee bit late, so I had a Pop Tart for breakfast, had my shower, got dressed, grabbed my iPod, walked to work. By the time I got in the doors I was so drenched in sweat I needed another shower. Fortunately they do have showers at work. Unfortunately I had to put back on the sweaty clothes I came in.

I have a friend from Lethbridge who moved to Ottawa for a year during the Nortel tech boom. After one year his wife gave him an ultimatum: Go back west, or she would leave him. She didn't mind the heat in Alberta, she couldn't stand the humidity of Ottawa.

[SteveToms]

Sit in my underwear in the basement

[Mccree]

Central A/C. you mean it is hot outside?

[Robbob]

Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate

To whomever said the humidity makes it 10x worse - I agree!! I'm in Ottawa and walk 10 minutes to work every morning. Monday I was running a wee bit late, so I had a Pop Tart for breakfast, had my shower, got dressed, grabbed my iPod, walked to work. By the time I got in the doors I was so drenched in sweat I needed another shower. Fortunately they do have showers at work. Unfortunately I had to put back on the sweaty clothes I came in.

I have a friend from Lethbridge who moved to Ottawa for a year during the Nortel tech boom. After one year his wife gave him an ultimatum: Go back west, or she would leave him. She didn't mind the heat in Alberta, she couldn't stand the humidity of Ottawa.

One of the other things I love in Alberta vs out east is that when you go in the shade in alberta there is a temp difference. I was out east in August for my wifes grandfathers funeral and it was 40+ with the humidity. Needless to say landing in Calgary 19 degrees with a slight shower was a god send. I told my wife that day never again.

[RedMan12]

It's Saturday night at 10:43 p.m. pst. I am sitting here in my second story apartment in Burnaby, BC with a fan blowing hot air at me. It must of been 35 degrees today and it has been humid as a mother f*****. My balls are turning into the Meadowlands arena.

I hear someone yelling in Spanish outside of my window. I want to say "slienco pendejo" but I figure it will not the situation. I feel am being slowly poached in my sauna of an apartment.

I have dranken all the beer in the house in a feble attempt to cool myself down. Next stop is a Slurpee. I hope there is some good flavours.

[Vulcan]

RedMan, I don't think beer cools you down. I believe it has the opposite effect.

[redforever]

Is your whole condo built with heated floors? We have a house with a walk out basement. The upstairs is regular forced air, the downstairs is infloor heating. A boiler heats the floor downstairs and we turn it off in summer. Our furnace hardly runs, summer or winter. In summer, dont really need it, unless a summer like last year. In winter, you get the best of both worlds. Warm air rises, heating the upstairs with very little running of the furnace.

There should be a wild loop that runs around the periphery, it usually is on all the time, unless you turn your boiler off of course, but the rest should be on zones and you should be able to turn the zones off.

If the whole thing is infloor heating, you wont want to turn it off permanently in summer. Infloor heating is not automatic like forced air, and once turned off, it will take a day or two for the slab to get reheated again.

[Dion]

It's 3 am and it's a furnace in my apartment. Anyhow i filled my bath tub half way with cold water. I even threw in a bag of ice cubes. 10 miutes of soaking should cool me off.

I also soaked some bed sheets in cold water and draped them over the balcony door. Did the same with the bedroom window. Any breeze will be cooled by the sheets. I also heard the Mexican's do this Arizona also.

Just got back from a Slurpee run. lol Alot of people had the same idea as me. Everybody bytching about the heat.

Then there was this guy who brought his llawn chair and asked the manager if he could camp out in his cooler. Dude got thrown out.

[Hemi-Cuda]

hell i'll take a week of -40 over this ****. knowing how utterly uncomfortable i am in this weather has only reaffirmed my belief that i will never live any further south. i have friends in the states who are reporting temperatures reaching 120F. i'd rather freeze to death than be boiled alive

[Eastern Girl]

Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate

To whomever said the humidity makes it 10x worse - I agree!! I'm in Ottawa and walk 10 minutes to work every morning. Monday I was running a wee bit late, so I had a Pop Tart for breakfast, had my shower, got dressed, grabbed my iPod, walked to work. By the time I got in the doors I was so drenched in sweat I needed another shower. Fortunately they do have showers at work. Unfortunately I had to put back on the sweaty clothes I came in.

I have a friend from Lethbridge who moved to Ottawa for a year during the Nortel tech boom. After one year his wife gave him an ultimatum: Go back west, or she would leave him. She didn't mind the heat in Alberta, she couldn't stand the humidity of Ottawa.

I didn't realize it was worse here for the humidity. It has been ridiculous these last couple weeks, but we are getting a nice little break from it. Yesterday it was quite cool, looked like it was going to rain. Today it's really breezy and cool, but still sunny. The perfect day you might say, my dog is a lot more comfortable.

[Cowperson]

Glad I spent that $4,500 on air conditioning a couple of years ago . . . . .

I was out riding my bicycle to Turner Valley yesterday in the early afternoon . . . . that got pretty hot with the thermometer at 33 celcius. Loved it though.

Cowperson

[La Flames Fan]

Man, yesterday 7/22, was brutal here in L.A. I was driving home and my temp reading in the car read 115 F, works out to about 42-45 C, that is just insane...That's also without the humidity which was clocked at about 30-50%, so you're looking at a 120 F Degree day...Just insane, the heat wave across the whole continent....

[Eddie Bronze]

Kill me now.