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It's broken 100 degrees the last 2 days which for Upstate, NY is BANANAS! I have absolutely zero desire to even be outside but when I'm forced to (like to walk from my office to my car) it's absolutely brutal. I have a centrally air conditioned office and home so I can't even imagine how brutal it must be for those without AC. My FB wall has totally blown up with people complaining of the unbearable heat. Someone just posted that they're going to bed with ice packs!
How do you stay cool without AC?
@UpstateCait:Improvise. A fan with a pan of cold water in front of it is a primitive AC unit ;)
I have no idea how people do it...
We just moved last weekend from a house with no A/C (no window unit, even) to a house with central...people keep joking that we moved just in time for the heat wave, and they couldn't be more right! It's 70° here now so we opened the windows for the night to save some electricity but the last few days, even with the thermostat set at 74° it has been ridiculously hot in our 2nd floor. I seriously think I would have died had we not moved this week...even on 80° days it was torturous being without AC, and nearly impossible to sleep at night.
I <3 my central air, I don't care how high the electric bill is. I can't do heat!
Hmmm.... Im not really sure! lol Here in TX 100+ in the summer is norm. We have central air, but my parents have a pool too so that helps lol
No A/C here - We are fortunate in that our apt barely gets any direct sunlight (only from sunrise-7am and again 9ish -sundown) so if I leave the windows open and we have a breeze it doesnt get too bad. Although Sunday and Monday we were at high-90s and I went to bed at 11 and it was still 82/83 in the house. :( We just slept with no covers and a fan on next to the bed.
@UpstateCait: LOL!! This post reminded me of my BIL calling me and my family a bunch of jungle bunnies because we had survived without any kind of AC until 1994, I kid you not! My family is from Central America and is used to the kind of heat we've been having in NY this week. We used to be able to get by with just a few good fans and some popsicles.
Now....ask me to give up my AC now. 
LOL!
I just put a fan right in front of me and pray I dont die. Thank gosh my new place has ac!
We don't have A/C, and it's broken 100 here too. I feel the worst for my poor kitty. I wipe her down with damp paper towels regularly, which she doesn't really like.
As for how we survive - box fans in the windows, drink a lot of ice water, go to the movies.
@ mightywombat The movies are the best. My bf and I went and watched two movies in a row the other day when it was 112 with heat index.
It's been 100+ and humid here the last few days (in the Midwest, no less), and I am very glad we splurged and bought a new window unit. Our old one would barely cool the room it was in. We put the new one in our bedroom window and even the kitchen, which is two rooms away, is frigid when you come in. But before we had it, it was godawful. We had fans everywhere and our two cats were miserable.
as an aussie i can handle the heat but its the cold that i hate - i like heat and humidity, 110f/40c i have no problem with but as soon as its starts getting chilly im calling the travel agent and heading to guam or asia (we just returned from 3 weeks in indonesia btw)
we have air con here but rarely use it - i prefer to climatise to local heat conditions as i find going from heat to cold, indoors to outdoors exhausting
we don't have central air, but we have 2 really good, powerful window units, and fans in the rooms without them. luckily hubs and i both work at home so we've only been leaving our nyc apt the past couple days to walk the dog :P we were supposed to go on a day trip to the beach today but can't bear to leave the ac units
I wouldn't be able to survive without AC. Even in the summers, we may be running the AC but I still have to run a smaller fan since the AC temp would be right for the entire house but me since I get hot so easily. But during the winter, I can live with the cold. Feels so good to me sometimes. But I am in NC.
Thanks for the replies, ladies! I'm about to head out into the sweltering 94 degree heat and I'm not looking forward to it. A cool 71 degrees is where it's at!
@UpstateCait: The 71 is much closer to my perfect temp then the rest. Good luck. I hate I have to head out soon too.
Ugh, tell me about it. Yesterday around 4:00 my office's AC went out and we went home early. It was 92 IN the office when I left.
I live in michigan and 90% of houses don't have any sort of air conditioning. The past week our apartment has been 90+ degrees and very humid. We live by 4 beaches though (can you say lake superior) so we go there after DH gets out of work or school. There is 0 cooking, sleeping, or moving at all. I haven't felt like this since living in missouri for a few years. I live in the UP so we're used to 9 months of winter and high temps of 65. Oh well, today it's not supposed to get above 65 degrees so I'll go clean.
I LOVE the heat (I don't get it enough in MI!) but wouldn't feel the same if I couldn't escape to my air conditioned car, house, etc!
@JewishBride: YAY another UP bride :) What area are you from? (if you don't mind me asking!) Also, Lake Superior is a good place to go when it's in the 90s since it is always FREEZING cold!!!
@Lindsay12.31.2010: Yeah. Our thermostat thermometer only goes up to 90, but it's been stuck there for hte past several days. I think it's probalby been more like 95 in the apartment. It's better now, though - there was a nice thundershower this morning that temporarily broke the heat.
115 with the heat index here yesterday and 106 the day before... I haven't even been outside yet today because the weather is causing me headaches =( but I haven't had to turn my air on yet cause I live in a basement condo and the neighbors probably have their air on full blast cause it's freezing in here... I'm cuddled up under my blanket now. This hurts us in the winter however when were heating the upstairs neighbors homes... sigh.
Yeah, I like AC. It's been up around 120 with the heat index and just walking around outside, I'm dying. I can't imagine no AC this week. I once lived in an apartment one summer with just a window unit and one of my roommates absolutely did not want to turn it on but her boyfriend (now husband) and I were dying and finally did it much to her protest mid July. She absolutely loves the heat, blech.
I don't know how people deal. It's been 100+ here with HORRIBLE humidity and our AC can't keep up. We like the keep the house at 73 but it's been 78-79 in here lately and it's miserable to go outside. DH and I are dying :(
We did not have AC in Colorado but there is only a few weeks of the year that are so unbearable that you need it. Most of the time, we got a good cross breeze opening windows on both sides of the house.
The thought of not having an a/c sounds crazy!! I live in TX and those temperatures are normal for us this time of the year (doesn't make it any easier to deal with, trust me). We run our a/c's about 6 months out of the year! It blows my mind to think about not having one! LOL
Fans and cold water (in a spray bottle). A/C is nice but lots of people survive without it with no problems.
we didn't have a/c growing up, and (while this summer does seem unusually hot- not that I'm complaining!) there really is only a week or two each summer that is just unbearable.
Strategically placed fans. Ice water. Not moving unless absolutely necessary.
I try to tell myself it's character building. And this past week, when the heat index hit 122 degrees here, I brought my pets to my parents' place where there is AC (and hung out there myself for awhile!)
Our apartment has one piddly little ac window unit that barely cools the 4 feet immediately in front of it. We don't cook and we don't move around too much :)
You do adapt to the heat though. What makes it unbearable is going from an air conditioned space to one that's not. Since I work at home I never have to deal with it, so I'm used to being warm.
We went through the same heat wave in NH. We don't have A/C. I have no idea how we survived! UGH! I was trying to think of reasons to get in my car and go for a drive so I could sit in the A/C! My son sat in the bath tub for awhile (too hot to sit outside and swim in the pool), we hung out in my bedroom (the back of the house) where it stays a little cooler. Drank LOTS of water! Glad it is cooler today! Still, I would take the heat over snow/ice any day!
I'm from LA and I grew up with central air and swimming pools. I live in Maine now and even though you only need A/C for a couple months, you had better believe we have it! I would die without it. The heat gives me serious headaches and I can't sleep in room that is hotter than 78 degrees. Plus I work from home so I need a/c just to function properly.
We went on Craigslist last summer and bought a brand-new window unit for for the bedroom for $50.00 and then managed to find a larger, 10,000 btu window a/c unit for $50.00 as well. Our place is small and those two keep our house at a perfect 68 degrees. At night we have to sleep under a down comforter. Sweet:)
@PutABirdOnIt: I am soooo jealous! All our windows crank out so a window unit wouldn't even work in our house! :(
I dont know how people do it. Maybe Im just a big baby!!!
We don't have AC and it has been brutal! But we have an indoor and an outdoor pool so that is our saviour! We also have fans going.
Our house is all solid brick, so it's actually stayed cooler than I expected. We have 2 window AC units, but it's actually been fine with just 1 and a fan running. We also use thermal curtains that keep the sun and heat out, and they've really, really helped to keep things cool.
@RR: Couldn't agree more. I wouldn't be able to survive without it.
I don't know but you just make do. I grew up in the San Fernando Valley (CA) with no AC. I remember one summer it got to 112. The tapered candles on my mother's dining table drooped over.
I used to take showers before bed and not towel off. I would just lay down on my bed with the ceiling fan going.
During the summer, we would spend most of the day in the pool. And if I remember correctly, my school only had pathetic window AC units. It was tough!
So glad my parents decided to spring for central AC eventually! AFTER I left for college... :(
Creative fan use. Seriously. My Mother had a way of positioning two window fans to push hot air out and draw cool air in.
He have A/C at home, but in summer rarely use it.... I guess being Australian we are used to brutal summers.
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