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.

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[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.