Okay, this is ridiculous.

[westernredcedar]

I have low tolerance for heat, hence, I am a resident of the Pacific Northwest.
Where we have no air conditioning, because, why bother?
I cannot do 95+ degrees all week. I simply can't. You hear that, weather?? I CAN'T. *melts*

I'd go down to the local air-conditioned book store right now and sit there browsing, except that the idea of getting in my no-air-conditioning oven car to drive the three minutes sounds so horrific that I can hardly stand it.

What? I should go anyway? You are right. *tries to move*

I loathe the heat.

ETA: I'm not just whiny- apparently Wednesday might be the hottest day EVER here. Good grief.

Comments

[nehalenia.livejournal.com]

Welcome to my world. It's 9:00 pm and only now settling down into the lower 90s.

That said, I feel your pain. I was visiting friends in Oregon during the 2004 heat wave. 95-degrees sucks WAY worse when you don't have A/C and nobody knows how to deal with the heat. (Thus my decision to bring a window unit with me should I ever be lucky enough to move to the PNW.)

Could you flee to the coast till the worst is over? Pacific Ocean = natural AC.

[westernredcedar.livejournal.com]

How do you do it?? *boggles*
It might hit 100 tomorrow, simply unheard of around here.
I've been pushed to consider buying some sort of air conditioning unit to survive these days, but it seems like such a waste. This is so unusual. Fans and cold showers will have to do for now.
I went down to the Sound yesterday to get a little more breeze by the water, and there is a great public salt water pool down there that I should go to again tomorrow for a little relief. I'd love to go to the ocean, if I could figure out a cool place to leave the cat...

[nehalenia.livejournal.com]

We stay in the AC as much as possible. And bitch about it. Pretty much the same way Northerners treat winter, but in reverse. The bad thing about heat waves in the PNW is no A/C. The good thing is that even when it gets that hot, it usually still cools down quite a bit at night (tho I remember it still being damned unpleasant back in '04.)

I know my Oregon friends deal with heat waves by staying at work as long as possible, then going up to the mountains/waterfalls until it cools down a bit, then opening the windows and turning on the fans.

If I were you, I'd go ahead and buy a cheap window unit AC (like, for the bedroom.) So you only use it 1 week every other year. That just means it will last forever.

Remember global warming. Y'all may be getting these heat waves a lot more often in the future. The weathers screwy everywhere.