You haven’t been inhaling deep enough to toughen up your lungs. 
It got up to 107 here today. Our air conditioner was broken for most of the week last week, but luckily it was pretty cool…didn’t get above 96 or so. Ha.
I come from Minnesota, and I just love it when people say, “oh boy! it’s only going to be 96 tomorrow! let’s go on a picnic and/or do various strenuous recreational activities outside! Oh, but it’s a dry heat!”
Pshaw!
That’s why us North Dakotans have to look out for Minny. We drain the heat we can to help them out. 
Thanks, Wallet (hack, hack) Picked up (wheeze) a new kind of inhaler from my doctor today. It’s a powder instead (cough) of a mist. Oh, and he wants me to quit smoking.
Maybe when it cools off.
It’s been runnin’ 96 to 98 here, and humid, but that’s pretty much par for the course in these parts.
Our problem is the drought. I guess the Northeast swiped all our rain. It’s only rained four times here since April 25th, the last time on June 30th.
The lawn grass is dying, there’s no grazing for the livestock and our water-well is beginning to fail.
So far we’ve gotten along by using the washing machine in the mornings, showering at night and the old “If it’s yellow let it mellow” method of water conservation.
Hate to wish for a hurricane, but a good tropical depression with a week-long rain sure would be nice!
My husband always tells me this story about his construction days when I complain about working in the heat. I sometimes get tired of it, but it is a story that is like having to walk uphill to and from school.
When he first started construction, he worked as a basic laborer, moving wood, stacking wood, organizing wood, moving tools, cleaning up etc… He did this as he learned how to be a rough carpenter. One year, it was about 100 degrees with 90% humidity and they were building a house out in BFE. The guy had excavated a 22 acre lake to the depth of about 25 feet (sold the topsoil), then, on the far side, on the top of a hill, he was going to build his 7,000 square foot house. Walk out basement, 3.5 stories tall, 12 foot ceilings, the works.
The road to the site went through the woods surrounding the lake and was very windy, so the lumber trucks could not get their loads in. Thus, they drove through the unfilled lake bed and dropped the wood at the base of the hill. My hubby had to carry every piece of wood, up a 30 degree slope, about 300 feet (vertical). The trip was worse than the load, so he was carrying 4 and 5 sheets of plywood at once. He had to move the 2x12 30 footers up as well. He recalls it as the worse three days of his entire working career.
When my family and I first moved from Butt Sweat, Arkansas to the St. Louis area in the dead of winter with nine inches of snow on the ground, we thought to ourselves, “Well, it may be wang-numbingly cold now, but at least the summers will be mild, right?”
HAH!
A high of 98 F is predicted for tomorrow, with no A/C at Casa De La Pixie. Dang it, if the winters are frigid, then the summers should be mild.
So I’ve been seeing these commercials for a solar-powered “cooling system” that you clip onto your car window. In the commercial, it kept the test car at 75 F while the control car was 107.
Getting into your unshaded car in the summer here really sucks. Even with the darkest tinting available and a windshield shade, it sucks. But I’d be pissed if it didn’t work here and I wasted my money.
I’ve seen those ads too, and am rather skeptical of their claims for the device’s efficacy.
There’s a high heat warning in effect for Montreal. It’s been ludicrous; I’ve been sweating so much that I’ve sometimes been changing my T-shirts and underwear twice or three times a day and showering that often too.
We bought an A/C yesterday. Best $500 I’ve spent recently. Ahhhhhh. And tonight there’s a thunderstorm, so that should help.
Thank god it was drizzling three weeks ago when we moved in.
We’ve been right around 100 the last few days. I’m another heat-lover; I don’t mind sweating, and I’m pretty thin so I usually shed the extra BTUs without much trouble. I’ve been driving an old pickup truck with no A/C for the last seven years or so, and I’m pretty well used to it.
But this summer, for the first time, I’m wearing a suit and tie to work everyday. It makes a Great Big Honking Difference when you can’t get any air circulating next to your skin. Ick.
Never saw an ad for them, but I got one of those things years ago from the kind of catalog you get on airplanes & gave it to my husband’s aunt in Tucson. She said it helped, actually. But then somebody broke into the car and got the stereo and while they were there, took the solar cooler as well. So how’s that for a recommendation, someone bothered to steal it!
I didn’t get one for myself because I typically welcome the heat of the car…helps me thaw out after being in AC all day, and by the time I’m thawed, the car is cool. However, where I live it’s hardly ever too hot, and never too hot for me.
Pervert
No kidding. I’m wheezing, coughing, and may be developing another respiratory infection.
101 today, humidity at 97% :eek: (how is that possible??) and i nearly fainted outside while taking out my garbage.
I have 1,000 square feet of cooled, unused rooms upstairs. I wish I could offer it to people who need shelter. Unfortunately, my area doesn’t seem to have a way to contact people in need. 
It’s raining? Where do you live?
Rain? rain?..ah yes I 'member that…vaguely
At least this one isn’t expensive, $30, and it doesn’t use your car battery.
It’s only a fan, tho, with no cooling power other than exchanging air. They claim 20 minutes to refill the interior.
I’ve noticed something odd on really hot days.
Even if I spend the day indoors, with air conditioning, I still feel cranky & tired.
I can’t understand it. 
Anybody else like this?
It’s a fan. It keeps your car interior from becoming an oven, but it’ll still be warmer than the outside air.
THESE work better, & are much cheaper.
I started using a homemade version 7 years ago, & I’ve been happy since.