Spunky wants ideas to keep cool (and I do too!)

I share Spunky's ideas (we spent 3 hours in walmart today b/c they have AC), but here are a few more of my own...

Keeping cool:

I have no idea if this would be possible b/c of supply and demand,
but if you can get your hands on some dry ice, fill up your bathtub
with dry ice and put a fan in the bathroom.

Then, everyone camps out in the bathroom all day. Pretty boring,
but it works.

If you have another room you can close up (maybe a living room with
doors or a larger bedroom) you can use buckets for the dry ice and
do the same thing...it takes more work that way though. Even if you
didn't "live" in the bathroom all day, at least you'd have one room
that was cool. It got into the high 90's the year shayna was born
and we did this, the dry ice lasted about two-three days, but we
never filled the tub all the way to the top.

It's been in the low 100's here and we're really not used to it this
far north, and a lot of people don't have AC. You can't even buy
swimming pools, sunscreen, etc. Anything "water related" is
completely sold out.

Dry ice can get expensive if you're having to do it all the time,
but maybe for a few days just to give your bodies a break and a
chance to recouperate would at least help.

The other thing we did when I was a teenager (you know, when it got
up into the 80's on "hot days") was we'd run our laundry (even
our "unmentionables") through the rinse and spin cycle on the
washing machine, and wear wet clothes. We'd have to "rewet" our
clothes every few hours, but this actually worked really well even
after our clothes dried from the heat, because it'd cool our bodies
enough that it was "liveable" for another few hours.

Eating frozen things helps too. Make juice and freeze it in icecube
trays using toothpicks (two-three toothpicks per "cube"). Wait
until the top begins to freeze before sticking the toothpicks in (or
they fall all over the place), but the more frozen things you can
eat, the lower your body temp will be. THis works for any juice, so
even veggie juice. I like to make emerald champagine (basically
pineapple and cellery vitamixed) and freeze that. My kids LOVE it!
Another good one is bananas and peanut butter blendered together and
frozen.

Those are all the ideas I have for keeping cool w/o AC.