How do you beat the heat?

Perhaps this question/survey will only apply to those of us men who live in the scortched lands, not you northmen - but anyone feel free to reply. I live in Houston, Texas where we go from SUMMER to not quite summer - then back to SUMMER again. Two seasons. Well, ok - we do get fairly mild to chilly (40 degree) winters down here but they're few in coming. In our winters however - you can wear what you want, and go out how you want, mainly because its cold enough to where you could wear a jacket, but you'd do fine without one too.

In the summer however, its time for the great invisible toungue to come out again. We not only have to deal with oppressive straight up heat, but nearly 90%-100% humidity as well! Suppose you just finish taking a shower, getting dressed, feeling all good and neat, and you walk outside to your car - you get slurped by the inivisible humidity tounge, all it takes is a couple seconds to a minute before you're already taking a shower again - but in your clothes this time!

The way I plan to beat the heat this year is to simplify things. I am just going to stay indoors for 99% of the summer. The way I reason it, the only time I need to go outside is to get from my house to my car in the driveway, and from my car in the parking lot to the A/C-ed building I work at. Instead of trying to fight the summer in vain and spending time outside like I've done in the past - I'll beat the tounge and the sun at their own game and refuse to come out. HA!

Oh and... drink lots of water.

I hear you man. I live in Southwest Louisiana. Hot as hell all summer. It is actually a bit worse here if you can believe that. I swear that the cool air from my car's AC gets warmed up by the sun before it can reach my face. It has been in the mid - upper 80's for the last month & a half & now we are getting in to the lower 90's.

We also have lots of swampy land here, and the mosquitos will carry you the fuck off if you don't look out. Honestly, it would only take about 10 minutes outside to get 10 - 12 evil mosquito bites If you were dumb enough to stand still.

It's nice to own your own home & everything, but having almost an acre of land to mow sucks ass in this heat.

JM

damn man - I'd hire ppl if possible to mow your lawn - an acre? Thats a long time to spend out in this inferal death trap.

It can get pretty hot during the summer in Atlanta. I just try to stay indoors. With the A/C on. From my bedroom window I can laugh at all the fools who are outdoors.

Yeah. That usually works.

i just made the mistake of starting a workout in the middle of the day outside .... argh - the heat zapped my limited strength very quick - which taught me a lesson that i'll put into effect tommorow - work out in the mornings.

1.) I work at night.
2.) I mow the lawn early in the morning, or late in the evening, or get the neighbor's kid to do it.
3.) Keep the A/C on ( since I don't have to pay for it ).

Though I love the heat, the best way to beat it is to hide out in the base-ment 24/7. Walking to bus-stop to get to work, however, presents some problems. It's shitty when you show up to work smelling like ass and wee, and know you're going to keep smelling like ass and wee for 8 hours. I bring deorderant and cologne but you can only mask that shit for so long.

I am dying from the heat right now. I hate the heat. Yesterday I baked sitting out in the sun during a Montréal Impact game. I didn't realise it would be soooo hot... so I hat no hat, no sunglasses.. I just sat there squinting and sweating to death.

Right now the sun is pouring into my apartment and it feels like an oven. My girlfriend is sewing some new thick sun-blocking drapes and we're going to buy an air conditioner tout de suite.

Central Air = the key to happiness

Northerners don't necessarily have it easy.

Last summer here in OH (and even a few days this spring) we had some intense humidity that you'd see down in Louisiana or Houston. I don't think OH gets any help from being close to Lake Erie. I'm just thankful it's not winter, where the invisible tongue can frost over windshields.

The lucky Arizonans have humidity in the teens or below.

www.usatoday.com/weather/wheat3.htm

Here's a humidity & temperature chart. On a 120 degree day, even 30% humidity can be horrible- according to the chart it feels like 148.