How do you cope with the heat?

tdanb2003 · **Posted:** Tue Feb 16, 2010 1:48 pm

Ceri wrote:

alanssaab wrote:

move to scotland for your summer mate , nice and cool here , in fact it's freezing but you could start a thread about coping with the cold

Frankie Boyle, putting on a Count Dracula voice: "I can't tollerate daylight so I moved to Scotland. But now I can't find any virgins!!"

Cheers - C

thats British humor for ya.... :lol:

Riley hang in there...We'll be griping about the heat in the northern hemisphere in a few more months while you're down south chillin...

radio_friendly_unit_shifter · **Posted:** Tue Feb 16, 2010 2:13 pm

mhainz wrote:

My brother in law lived in Wangaratta (not far from Benalla) for a couple of years and the heat there was just brutal. He just fitted the biggest airconditioner he could find to his 2 bedroom home. I reckon it could have kept a small factory cool. I just couldn't believe how cold it would also get in winter though...

Wangarata's a nice town, we go down there quite often.
Unfortuanatley we have one of the most suckiest air cons in the history of man kind....

fenderstrat1963 · **Posted:** Tue Feb 16, 2010 2:28 pm

Similar to what someone earlier posted about water mist. Get yourself a squirt bottle and set it to as fine a spray as possible. Mist it onto your arms and face then sit in front of a fan. Not too much on your arms if you're playing guitar at the same time of course...

I'm in Brisbane - it rarely gets as hot as SA, but riding a pushbike to and from work every day makes me appreciate what we spent on air con.

texasguitarslinger · **Posted:** Tue Feb 16, 2010 2:36 pm

It's funny talking about heat right now, it's in the 50s (F) now. That would be about 10 degrees Celsius. And it actually snowed this year, and last year!

In the summer it can reach about 105 degrees (F) or 40 (C). The humidity is what gets to you though, we're more like Louisiana than Texas in that way. And unlike in the desert, the temperature doesn't fall very far at night. But I don't really ever remember it being that uncomfortable. When I was little we'd go outside in the morning, take a break at around three in the afternoon, and then return in the evening. Sometimes we'd stay out all day in the summer, but we'd just sit in the garage sipping kool-aid during the worst of the heat.

Our A/C was broken last August, and that was pretty bad because there was just no break from the heat day or night. And when we were in Austin in July it was well into the 100s, but it was a dry heat. We coped with it by climbing mountains in the middle of the day. :lol:

Which was sort of a bad idea looking back, but the rest of my family wasn't particularly excited by my idea of spending the afternoon at Guitar Center.

Beaubs · **Posted:** Tue Feb 16, 2010 3:23 pm

Ceri wrote:

alanssaab wrote:

move to scotland for your summer mate , nice and cool here , in fact it's freezing but you could start a thread about coping with the cold

Frankie Boyle, putting on a Count Dracula voice: "I can't tollerate daylight so I moved to Scotland. But now I can't find any virgins!!"

Cheers - C

Now that is funny....... :lol:

Taurus · **Joined:** Sun Jun 07, 2009 9:25 pm **Posts:** 487

Hey, Riley- I'm in Arizona. It's bee-you-tee-ful right now. But from June through September, it's like a convection oven. Walkin from your car to your home is like walking through radiation.
I crawl around in peoples crawl spaces doing lighting and things.

I think I may have cut a few years off my life doing this. Cant do it anymore.....