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  • How To Keep Cool During a Heat Wave

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    1. Drink slurpees and smoothies
    2. Eat freezies
    3. Drink lots of water
    4. Open all doors and windows
    5. Keep the air flowing
    6. Wear loose fitting light colored clothing
    7. Have someone blast you with a super soaker
    8. Take a wet towel and wrap it around your neck
    9. Go swimming
    10. Streak through the sprinklers with your junk hanging out
    11. Do Souljaboy’s superman dance, underwater
    12. Add water to anything, your clothes, your bathtub, your mullet
    13. Have a waterfight
    14. Get sweaty and sit in front of a fan
    15. Eat spicy food because it will make you sweat and sweat cools you off
    16. Wear a hat
    17. Go downstairs
    18. Turn off your gadgets and computers
    19. In fact turn off any electronic heat sources
    20. Find shade
    21. Meditate or sit still

    According to Wikipedia a Heatwave is:

    “…a prolonged period of excessively hot weather, which may be accompanied by high humidity. There is no universal definition of a heat wave; the term is relative to the usual weather in the area. Temperatures that people from a hotter climate consider normal can be termed a heat wave in a cooler area if they are outside the normal climate pattern for that area. The term is applied both to routine weather variations and to extraordinary spells of heat which may occur only once a century. Severe heat waves have caused catastrophic crop failures, thousands of deaths from hyperthermia, and widespread power outages due to increased use of air conditioning.”

    [Photo by Rita Willaert | Heatwave Wikipedia]