tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28394335.post6497856822480314980..comments2024-03-13T15:41:33.595-07:00Comments on A Way to Live: Heat wave...Doyu Shoninhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00148504542232844586noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28394335.post-64872515202521022842009-07-04T13:47:05.856-07:002009-07-04T13:47:05.856-07:00Fans played a great part in our home back when. No...Fans played a great part in our home back when. Nothing like a cassock fan next to your bed with the sheet over the fan and your bed so cool air from the floor blew under your sheet and kept you cooler. <br /><br />I would get up at night and rinse cool water over my hands and wrists and use a "soppy rag" to wet my neck and face and legs. Anything to add to the possibility of evaporation and consequent cooling of the body! On really hot nights, rubbing alcohol on pulse points helped cool a lot.<br /><br />A cool (not cold) drink of water or sweet iced tea would help some. <br /><br />Rubbing ice cubes on pulse points helped some, too. Mama used to occasionally rub ice cubes on my back and leave my back damp for more evaporative help.<br /><br />Didn't want to use ice cubes much on large areas, though, because they constrict blood vessels and decrease the cooling effect to the rest of the body. Just cool water or alcohol works best.Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16235917932407164518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28394335.post-67123596050096743192009-07-03T22:40:16.522-07:002009-07-03T22:40:16.522-07:00In Camak many houses had the screened-in back porc...In Camak many houses had the screened-in back porches, and families would put army cots out there during heat waves, to sleep fitfully through the night, dripping sweat, as the lightnin' bugs played hide-and-seek with the stars.Doyu Shoninhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00148504542232844586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28394335.post-21490206835261775302009-07-03T05:36:40.096-07:002009-07-03T05:36:40.096-07:00Even Georgia is having a bit of a warm spring and ...Even Georgia is having a bit of a warm spring and early summer. Who knows what the rest of the year will be like?<br /><br />Heat waves happen. I remember as a child in the early 50's it was in the hundreds for days on end in June, July and August - even in the mountains. We napped the hot afternoons away, and swam in the early mornings and late afternoons.<br /><br />At my current age, I can only repeat my grandmother's words when she was my age - "Just sit and wait and it will pass."Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16235917932407164518noreply@blogger.com