Survival of extreme heat without air conditioning

The survival of extreme heat in summer can be an emergency.

I don’t know how it is, where you live, but where I live, it is over 100 degrees Fahrenheit for half a day. We use the oven of our house only a few weeks in January and February, and then it is usually only at night. With this kind of atmosphere, when it comes to survival, I’m not worried about heating my home when I cool it. Considering that we are air -conditioning over 300 days a year, if the net falls, we have trouble.

Let me add a little more confusion to high heat here. My wife’s body really can’t stand the heat. He is one of those rare people who do not sweat. So the natural cooling we experience is not available to it. It overheats too easily too easily. Not entirely the right person who lives in the atmosphere in which we live.

Nevertheless, we had to come up with how to survive extreme heat without air conditioning. Although we have excellent air conditioning systems in our home and cars, we also spend a lot of time in Mexico, where we have these luxuries much less often. Even if we could take the air conditioner with us, the interruptions in the supply of electric current are extremely common south of the border.

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The first thing you have to do to keep calm when you don’t have air conditioning will stay beyond the sun. The shadow is wonderful. The shade can save up to 10 degrees of temperature. If you have to be somewhere that has no air conditioning, make sure you don’t stand in the sun.

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You can do the same to help in the cold of buildings. If the building is in the shade, it is not as hot as one standing in the sun. So make an appointment to make your home in the shade. If you do not have a comfortable skyscraper that will provide you with a shadow, it plants trees. Make sure you put them on the southern and west sides of the house, because these are the pages in which the sun hits the strongest. Maybe these trees will take some time, but they finally shade your home.

When we lived on the road in a motorhome, I built a shade of the sun’s length of the vehicle. It was stopped from the roof and side of the campsite and stretched from fiberglass poles. It kept the sun away from our RV, which makes it about 15 degrees cooler in the middle.

How about the wind?

It is important that your body is well hydrated during the survival of extreme heat.

Wind is a great help in surviving the extreme heat. Although we live in a hot climate, it is windy here. This wind makes a difference. On the day the wind blows, I can count on the fact that it is much cooler than on other days. I can also count on the wind, helping my descendants to evaporate faster, providing me with more cooling.

For water to evaporate, it must absorb a lot of heat. If this water is your sweating, water pulls out warm from your body. If you don’t have any sweat, you can spray with water from a spray bottle, providing water to evaporate and cool.

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You can get a lot of cooling after pairing, especially if you have some wind. A straight paddler can be made by hanging burlap above the open window or door. When the air passes through Juta, it will evaporate water in the cavity, pulling the heat out of the passing air. This can reduce the air temperature passing through the window or door by 10 to 15 degrees.

For this to work, you will have to maintain fresh water supply for nucia. This can be done with a pump or by spraying water in the Jura from time to time. Regardless of how you do it, make sure the burlap remains wet.

Uphematous cooling on your body

I have already mentioned how sweat provides evaporation cooling for your body and how you can spray with water to help overcome any problem with a lack of sweating. However, there is a different way of using the evaporating cooling on the body; It’s with a “nice collar”.

I don’t know if you can buy them anymore, but they are not difficult to do. The cool collar consists of a fabric tube with a diameter of about one and a half inches and a length of 28 inches. Before closing the tube, place a tablespoon of a spoon of gel determining moisture, which can be bought at home and garden centers. You will have to block both ends of the crystal tube by sewing, leaving all crystals in the middle.

After making a cool collar and end the end in water. Crystals absorb water, making the collar swell to such an extent that it looks like a crack. Don’t worry, it won’t.

Put a cool collar around the neck, binding the ends together. Crystals inside gradually release water, allowing it to evaporate and cool. Being around the neck means that the collars are at the point of the largest blood flow. When the water evaporates from the collars, the collars will cool down, pulling the heat out of the body.

The same idea as the collar can be expanded and turned into a vest. Some highway employees use these vests to keep it cooler during work. The larger surface of the vest provides more cooling than the flanges.

Get the subway to survive the extreme heat

If you have any way to the ground, it will be cooler. This may include a fall in the basement, entrance to the main basement (if you have it) or entering a comfortably located cave. It is so effective that if you have a cave on your property, you can consider transforming it into a survival shelter.

If you decide to build the main basement at some point, as part of the survival strategy, make sure you make it large enough so that you can use it to shelter from the heat. This will provide you with the best natural cooling you can find.

When I was on the Yucatan Peninsula a few years ago, I discovered the Mexican “Cenotes”. These are underground caves with lakes. There can only be a few feet underground (10 to 20), but the temperature inside the caves is about 20 degrees cooler. The water was so cool that after some time you would have to get out and warm up; And it was days when there were over 100 degrees Fahrenheit on the surface.

Swim

Speaking of cenotes, never forget about the emergency cooling method of a summer child; getting into the water. No matter how hot it is, water will always be cooler. Swimming, running through sprinkles or fighting water are great summer ways to cool. Don’t tell me you’re too old for that; If you are still breathing, you are not too old.

The water that comes to our homes goes through the underground pipes; This makes it cooler than the air temperature. Just getting wet with this water will help you cool down, and then with the evaporation of water, it will cool down even more.

What tips do you have about survival in summer outside the network? How will you survive the summer heat? Tell us in the comments section below.