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Benedict Arnold

How do YOU handle a heat wave?

Yesterday in my area the temperature peaked at 44C (111F) and for the second time in a few days our electricity power station burned out leaving everybody blacked out. The fire brigade arrived and the hazmat guys were on the job. We took the car for a drive to use it's air conditioning but I got less than an hour's sleep during the night.

How do you handle it? 

Posted - January 13, 2017
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  • 5808
    I would have melted away
    and couldn't answer this question.
      January 13, 2017 5:21 PM MST
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  • I was more worried about my dog. She's very old and it could have finished her off. We could have spent an hour or two in a shopping mall but since we couldn't take er, we couldn't go either. It's rare to get those temperatures around here -- we get close but not quite that high. 
      January 13, 2017 5:25 PM MST
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  • 5808
    be cool
      January 13, 2017 5:49 PM MST
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  • Tons and tons of water/
      January 13, 2017 5:25 PM MST
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  • Always a good idea. At least, having no electricity didn't stop us from taking cold showers.
      January 13, 2017 5:26 PM MST
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  • We get brownouts here too when weather goes over 40c...I'm lucky live near a river so I just swim in river when that happens...So go jump in a river Didge :p or lit's cold showers :)
      January 13, 2017 5:41 PM MST
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  • Gas up the boat and go.

    111F?   I'd be so P.O.
      January 13, 2017 5:54 PM MST
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  • 1128
    Ugh I don't do well in either extreme heat or cold.  I'm too old for both extremes!  lol
      January 13, 2017 5:55 PM MST
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  • 7789
    I guess I handle it like everyone else. When you got things to do, you just do it without regard to what the weather is.
      January 13, 2017 5:58 PM MST
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  • You know where I am Didge! Always in Summer!
      January 13, 2017 6:03 PM MST
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  • 6988
    The local nuke power plant is for sale. 
      January 13, 2017 6:20 PM MST
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  • 8209
    Heat waves do not exist where I live. 
      January 13, 2017 6:26 PM MST
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  • 5354
    You in inland Australea ?

    Anyways for heat my recipe is to go swimming. Even near the coast the water rarely get over 25 Celcius.
      January 13, 2017 7:01 PM MST
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  • POOL :D

    California has occasional 105 degree+ heat waves, triple digit temps are no stranger to me. If there is water that I can climb into, I'm good. 

    During the summer I often like to go outside and read. But when the heat waves hit, it's too hot, even in the shade. So one time I sat out in the backyard in my underwear and read lol

      January 13, 2017 8:03 PM MST
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  • Usually I have one of my maidens fan me.
    This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at January 14, 2017 10:02 AM MST
      January 13, 2017 8:24 PM MST
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  • 17582
    Pool. 
      January 13, 2017 11:14 PM MST
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  • "Take a vacation and go where they call it a heatwave when the snow starts to melt."

      January 30, 2017 2:11 AM MST
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