Re: CHAT: Temperature (was: I'm back!)

In a message dated 08/01/2002 12.01.47 PM, adchaney@MAC.COM writes: re:
central air-conditioning or rather the lack thereof:

>Indeed, I suffered a similar shock when I went to Paris (on my school's
>overseas study program: 5 weeks in Paris, 1 in london ... and it counts
>as a full-time summer semester :D woot!) and in Florence and in London.
Nobody
>had air-conditioning... :(
>
>I don't know how those Europeans survive.
    "Deviously" using lotsa open windows, ceiling fans, oscillating room
fans, cool drinks, etc 0_o?

    Once in Uvalde, Texas, - in the height of summer years & years ago - I
took to bathing in a tub with ice cubes.... only way to remain
semi-functional in that west Texas environment.
    Of course the cooling effects were only good for like 1/2 hour before one
was suffering again.
    One could get into the tub fully clothed, get out of the tub and be dry
as a bone within 45 min.s to an hour!!!
    When reading Frank Herbert's _Dune_ series I imagined that kind of
heat... it made the reading experience so much more intense.

    OBCONLANG/CULTURE: What are some idiomatic ways of describing absolutely
miserable weather and what are some conventional and/or unusual concultural
adaptions/survival tactics in regards to absolutely miserable climates?

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