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Of course, this is the day that my AC in my house decides to go out. It's 95 degrees outside and I have no AC! What should I do!? 
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Wet a towel and stick it in the freezer. Let that freeze up real good and then wrap it over your neck and shoulders and sit in front of the fan. Works very well!!
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Put some fans in and get some1 to fix your AC as soon as possible. Sorry for you luck 
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Go to the grocery store and sit in the freezer section. 
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I wouldn't buy an ac for my wife all summer and she's pregnant. The population was still striving before there was AC, so you just have to deal with it. 
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Put ice down the front of your pants. Thats sure to cool you down  Go to the movies. Buy one ticket, and sneak from show to show. Make friends with somebody at the morgue, and hang out there. Sneak into a strangers swimming pool while they are at work.
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ours died about a month ago...compressor blew a seal, $2700 to replace the unit.
went 2 days without AC, and it's 95+ with 99% humidity here. it sucks, I can deal during the day, but sleeping is difficult. I actually went and purchased a small window unit, to run in the bedroom at night. had been planning on getting one for when a hurricane knocks out power, and we are running on the generator for a week or more.
You can get a window unit these days for less than $100 for a small room.
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I can go without beer longer than I can go without AC 
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The population was still striving before there was AC, so you just have to deal with it.
yeah but buildings were built with airflow in mind, today we build them to be airtight hotboxes.
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The population was still striving before there was AC, so you just have to deal with it.
yeah but buildings were built with airflow in mind, today we build them to be airtight hotboxes.
That can be easily remedied by...opening a window.
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My family didn't have AC until 2000, so we got to be masters of the "box fan AC."
If you have a few box fans, find a couple windows that are on opposite sides of the house but that don't have a lot of obstructions between them (for example, if you have a large living room with windows on both sides). Put a box fan in one window blowing in. Put a second in the opposite window blowing out. If you have another box fan, put it in the middle of the room blowing the same direction as the other two to help the circulation.
Just a thought. Good luck.
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Didn't the idea of "Best Buy" or a local appliance store pop into your head when the A/C went out? 
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The population was still striving before there was AC, so you just have to deal with it.
yeah but buildings were built with airflow in mind, today we build them to be airtight hotboxes.
That can be easily remedied by...opening a window.
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Not always, just because a window is open, doesn't mean air will flow in a decent pattern to cool a house/room. Windows now a days are placed for style/appearance, where as before AC they were placed to provide maximum airflow throughout the house to cool.
Recall all those early house that had the transoms (little windows) above all the room doors that opened, those were there to allow air to flow through the house freely, keeping it cooler.
Opening 1 window doesn't cool anything, it takes 2 on opposite ends of the room/house to allow air to flow in one and out the other.
Now this is negated if the air temp outside is 15+ degrees cooler, then simple convection will cause some airflow, but when it's 95+ outside and 98 in the house, opening a window doesn't do anything, it's the moving air across your body that cools you down.
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I dont have AC in my house, Winter we cry it's too cold and cranck the heat Summer we cry it's to hot and crank the cold Summer Open all window, turn on a couple fans, rub a few cold beers on your forehead and were good, Winter, I dont turn my heat over 62 Last winter my kids were walking around the house whinning it's cold...they had shorts, & tee shirt on...add a sweat shirt, pair of socks, I've sat around in my warm underwear all day before...
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Of course, this is the day that my AC in my house decides to go out. It's 95 degrees outside and I have no AC! What should I do!?
Start a thread on a message board about it! 
Hmmmmmmm.....let's see. It's hot, so you want to try and remedy the situation. Let's look at this logically, shall we?
If a Heat Wave Is Predicted or Happening...
* Slow down. Avoid strenuous activity. If you must do strenuous activity, do it during the coolest part of the day, which is usually in the morning between 4:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m.
* Stay indoors as much as possible. If air conditioning is not available, stay on the lowest floor, out of the sunshine. Try to go to a public building with air conditioning each day for several hours. Remember, electric fans do not cool the air, but they do help sweat evaporate, which cools your body.
* Wear lightweight, light-colored clothing. Light colors will reflect away some of the sun's energy.
* Drink plenty of water regularly and often. Your body needs water to keep cool.
* Drink plenty of fluids even if you do not feel thirsty.
* Water is the safest liquid to drink during heat emergencies. Avoid drinks with alcohol or caffeine in them. They can make you feel good briefly, but make the heat's effects on your body worse. This is especially true about beer, which dehydrates the body.
* Eat small meals and eat more often. Avoid foods that are high in protein, which increase metabolic heat.
* Avoid using salt tablets unless directed to do so by a physician.
http://www.redcross.org/services/prepare/0,1082,0_243_,00.html#When
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and here I keep yelling at the wife for setting our air at 50 degrees  I swear to God if it's 75 out (perfect temp IMO) she has the damn air on It was 96 here yesterday and humid so thats a mulligan but one can live without air all the time. I had it off with windows open till I was getting the kids ready for bed. Then I turned the AC on cause thats some horrible sleeping conditions right there.
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I swear to God if it's 75 out (perfect temp IMO) she has the damn air on bed.
Ummm....that's normal, Lee. I have the air on all the time. It's more about humidity than temp anyway. Besides, our AC unit will run as a fan only if the temp inside the house is the same as the thermostat in the AC. Our window unit is on 24/7 lately. Looks like we might be able to give it a break Sunday and Monday.
Stay cool everyone and drink a lot of water!
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but one can live without air all the time.
Uh... we've had about 10 days in a row of 98+.... a couple in the triple digits... one can NOT live without air all the time... 
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Avoid drinks with alcohol or caffeine in them. They can make you feel good briefly, but make the heat's effects on
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Move. Get the hell out of Ohio. It's what I did... and it worked. I don't have AC in my house and I don't need it.
10 day forcast for my area...
Fri
Aug 24 Sunny
85°F
Sat
Aug 25 Partly Cloudy
77°F
Sun
Aug 26 Partly Cloudy
73°F
Mon
Aug 27 Sunny
75°F
Tue
Aug 28 Sunny
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Wed
Aug 29 Sunny
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Thu
Aug 30 Sunny
83°F
Fri
Aug 31 Sunny
78°F
Sat
Sep 1 Sunny
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Sep 2 Sunny
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Usually no more than 30 or 40% humidity.
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Of course, this is the day that my AC in my house decides to go out. It's 95 degrees outside and I have no AC! What should I do!?
Go sit outside and enjoy the weather like any normal person.
If having your A/C break makes you "worst luck ever!!!!!!!!!! lolzorz!", then you just don't realize how good you've got it.
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Portland Dawg.....Ya ant lived until ya bailed hay in 95 degree weather with 75% humidity with your buddies,,,,,take about a stinky situation, grown up we'd have to do this and the older guys would head back to the barn or celler to have a couple cold ones and cool off and us young kids finsihed the work, ( wrong & to slow of course), Thna we'd all sit around the front porch or inside the barn doors drinking this vinager ice tea gramma would serve to rehydrate ya, or a few beers, talk about smell'en alittle...LOL,
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If having your A/C break makes you "worst luck ever!!!!!!!!!! lolzorz!", then you just don't realize how good you've got it.
Well he forgot to mention that his cell phone battery died right in the middle of downloading a ringtone too...
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If having your A/C break makes you "worst luck ever!!!!!!!!!! lolzorz!", then you just don't realize how good you've got it.
Well he forgot to mention that his cell phone battery died right in the middle of downloading a ringtone too...
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but one can live without air all the time.
Uh... we've had about 10 days in a row of 98+.... a couple in the triple digits... one can NOT live without air all the time...
Well you get the exemption Yeah it was 96 here yesterday w/98% humidity. Then OK, but my wife when it hits 70 in spring and not humid at all it's comes on. Then the electric bill shoots up and I get mad.
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Portland Dawg.....Ya ant lived until ya bailed hay in 95 degree weather with 75% humidity with your buddies,,,,,take about a stinky situation,
grown up we'd have to do this and the older guys would head back to the barn or celler to have a couple cold ones and cool off and us young kids finsihed the work, ( wrong & to slow of course), Thna we'd all sit around the front porch or inside the barn doors drinking this vinager ice tea gramma would serve to rehydrate ya, or a few beers, talk about smell'en alittle...LOL,
I grew up doing those very same things Clay! Sounds VERY familiar. That's one reason now that I'm older...............I've got a frickin A/C!
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If having your A/C break makes you "worst luck ever!!!!!!!!!! lolzorz!", then you just don't realize how good you've got it.
Me saying "I have the worst luck ever" was obviously a joke. Which I thought I hinted at by saying "lol"...
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Not if its over 75 degrees
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Who are you, and what did you do with GM!!?
I can go a week without beer, but I can't go a day without air in the summer. 
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Thats for sure  Because I didn't say I wanted to
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Of course, this is the day that my AC in my house decides to go out. It's 95 degrees outside and I have no AC! What should I do!?
If it makes you feel any better, 2 winters ago when it was -10 degrees, my furnace died. It took about 3 weeks and $4,000 to get a new unit installed. This happened in early January.
Of course, everyone has a glut of money sitting around after the holidays... 
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