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What do you find worse - dry heat or heat & humidity?
On Tue, 30 Jul 2019 03:52:02 +0700, John B.
wrote: I'm, perhaps, being petty but you didn't "come down" with heat exhaustion in the sense that you came down with the flu, or came down with whooping ca ugh. I think the phrase I should have used was "dropped out with". -- Joy Beeson joy beeson at comcast dot net http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ |
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On Tuesday, July 30, 2019 at 12:13:47 PM UTC-4, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On Tuesday, July 30, 2019 at 3:49:01 AM UTC-4, John B. wrote: On Tue, 30 Jul 2019 03:08:54 -0400, Joy Beeson wrote: On Tue, 30 Jul 2019 10:45:41 +0700, John B. wrote: Heat exhaustion, by whatever name can be deadly. When I was at Edwards AFB, in the Mojave Desert a couple of rock hounds got their jeep bogged down and decided to walk out to the main road, maybe 2 miles, at high noon. They didn't make it. One thing I did do right was to call for help. Certainly. The military, not wanting their troops to be dropping dead all over the campus gave us special training about working in high temperature and very low humidity areas, and one of the things that they emphasized was "if you feel bad holler for help" as you can go from feeling bad to unconscious in a very short time, under certain conditions. These heat problems aren't unusual. A seven year old boy I know was recently on a day care field trip on a hot day. Standing outside in the sun with his classmates, he suddenly folded up and fainted. They got him out of the sun and cooled him off with water and ice, and he was perfect within five minutes.. Also, years ago our local high school band was marching and playing for a local parade on a hot day, wearing full uniforms. As the stood at attention, first one kid, then about five more in quick succession crumpled to the ground. It makes me wonder how Americans in the 1800s dealt with the heat and humidity around here. The fashion was to wear layers and layers of clothing. - Frank Krygowski Desert dwellers often wear LOOSE layers of clothing. The movement of the clothing as you walk can be surprisingly cooling. I had a very thick loose fitting velour track pants and top set. When I wore it on a hot/humid day I found that the air moving around under the clothing was quite cooling. I was quite surprised at that. I guess the inner layer holds the sweat and the air movement cools it and t he person wearing the loose clothing. Cheers |
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On 7/30/2019 4:49 PM, Sir Ridesalot wrote:
On Tuesday, July 30, 2019 at 12:13:47 PM UTC-4, Frank Krygowski wrote: On Tuesday, July 30, 2019 at 3:49:01 AM UTC-4, John B. wrote: On Tue, 30 Jul 2019 03:08:54 -0400, Joy Beeson wrote: On Tue, 30 Jul 2019 10:45:41 +0700, John B. wrote: Heat exhaustion, by whatever name can be deadly. When I was at Edwards AFB, in the Mojave Desert a couple of rock hounds got their jeep bogged down and decided to walk out to the main road, maybe 2 miles, at high noon. They didn't make it. One thing I did do right was to call for help. Certainly. The military, not wanting their troops to be dropping dead all over the campus gave us special training about working in high temperature and very low humidity areas, and one of the things that they emphasized was "if you feel bad holler for help" as you can go from feeling bad to unconscious in a very short time, under certain conditions. These heat problems aren't unusual. A seven year old boy I know was recently on a day care field trip on a hot day. Standing outside in the sun with his classmates, he suddenly folded up and fainted. They got him out of the sun and cooled him off with water and ice, and he was perfect within five minutes. Also, years ago our local high school band was marching and playing for a local parade on a hot day, wearing full uniforms. As the stood at attention, first one kid, then about five more in quick succession crumpled to the ground. It makes me wonder how Americans in the 1800s dealt with the heat and humidity around here. The fashion was to wear layers and layers of clothing. - Frank Krygowski Desert dwellers often wear LOOSE layers of clothing. The movement of the clothing as you walk can be surprisingly cooling. I had a very thick loose fitting velour track pants and top set. When I wore it on a hot/humid day I found that the air moving around under the clothing was quite cooling. I was quite surprised at that. I guess the inner layer holds the sweat and the air movement cools it and t he person wearing the loose clothing. And for contrast: I just attended a performance of period music from this part of Ohio. The performers were both good friends of mine, and dressed in period clothes. The guy had wool pants, a long sleeved shirt, a vest and a top hat. The woman had a long dress with a bustle, some sort of crocheted vest-thing, some kind of crocheted cap and, I assume, several layers underneath. (We're good friends, but not good enough that I would be allowed to peek!) Meanwhile I sat in the audience in shorts, sandals and a seersucker shirt, fanning myself with the program. I can only suppose that the 1800s folk in such garb took pains to move quite slowly. -- - Frank Krygowski |
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On Tue, 30 Jul 2019 09:13:44 -0700 (PDT), Frank Krygowski
wrote: On Tuesday, July 30, 2019 at 3:49:01 AM UTC-4, John B. wrote: On Tue, 30 Jul 2019 03:08:54 -0400, Joy Beeson wrote: On Tue, 30 Jul 2019 10:45:41 +0700, John B. wrote: Heat exhaustion, by whatever name can be deadly. When I was at Edwards AFB, in the Mojave Desert a couple of rock hounds got their jeep bogged down and decided to walk out to the main road, maybe 2 miles, at high noon. They didn't make it. One thing I did do right was to call for help. Certainly. The military, not wanting their troops to be dropping dead all over the campus gave us special training about working in high temperature and very low humidity areas, and one of the things that they emphasized was "if you feel bad holler for help" as you can go from feeling bad to unconscious in a very short time, under certain conditions. These heat problems aren't unusual. A seven year old boy I know was recently on a day care field trip on a hot day. Standing outside in the sun with his classmates, he suddenly folded up and fainted. They got him out of the sun and cooled him off with water and ice, and he was perfect within five minutes. Also, years ago our local high school band was marching and playing for a local parade on a hot day, wearing full uniforms. As the stood at attention, first one kid, then about five more in quick succession crumpled to the ground. It makes me wonder how Americans in the 1800s dealt with the heat and humidity around here. The fashion was to wear layers and layers of clothing. - Frank Krygowski Standing outside and fainting is extremely common at military parades. The Units march into position, stand at attention while some ceremony is preformed and invariably someone faints, some times several at a time :-) The Military attributed it to standing at attention with the legs straight and stiff and we were taught to stand with the knees flexed just a tiny bit. -- cheers, John B. |
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On Tue, 30 Jul 2019 17:49:05 -0400, Frank Krygowski
wrote: On 7/30/2019 4:49 PM, Sir Ridesalot wrote: On Tuesday, July 30, 2019 at 12:13:47 PM UTC-4, Frank Krygowski wrote: On Tuesday, July 30, 2019 at 3:49:01 AM UTC-4, John B. wrote: On Tue, 30 Jul 2019 03:08:54 -0400, Joy Beeson wrote: On Tue, 30 Jul 2019 10:45:41 +0700, John B. wrote: Heat exhaustion, by whatever name can be deadly. When I was at Edwards AFB, in the Mojave Desert a couple of rock hounds got their jeep bogged down and decided to walk out to the main road, maybe 2 miles, at high noon. They didn't make it. One thing I did do right was to call for help. Certainly. The military, not wanting their troops to be dropping dead all over the campus gave us special training about working in high temperature and very low humidity areas, and one of the things that they emphasized was "if you feel bad holler for help" as you can go from feeling bad to unconscious in a very short time, under certain conditions. These heat problems aren't unusual. A seven year old boy I know was recently on a day care field trip on a hot day. Standing outside in the sun with his classmates, he suddenly folded up and fainted. They got him out of the sun and cooled him off with water and ice, and he was perfect within five minutes. Also, years ago our local high school band was marching and playing for a local parade on a hot day, wearing full uniforms. As the stood at attention, first one kid, then about five more in quick succession crumpled to the ground. It makes me wonder how Americans in the 1800s dealt with the heat and humidity around here. The fashion was to wear layers and layers of clothing. - Frank Krygowski Desert dwellers often wear LOOSE layers of clothing. The movement of the clothing as you walk can be surprisingly cooling. I had a very thick loose fitting velour track pants and top set. When I wore it on a hot/humid day I found that the air moving around under the clothing was quite cooling. I was quite surprised at that. I guess the inner layer holds the sweat and the air movement cools it and t he person wearing the loose clothing. And for contrast: I just attended a performance of period music from this part of Ohio. The performers were both good friends of mine, and dressed in period clothes. The guy had wool pants, a long sleeved shirt, a vest and a top hat. The woman had a long dress with a bustle, some sort of crocheted vest-thing, some kind of crocheted cap and, I assume, several layers underneath. (We're good friends, but not good enough that I would be allowed to peek!) Meanwhile I sat in the audience in shorts, sandals and a seersucker shirt, fanning myself with the program. I can only suppose that the 1800s folk in such garb took pains to move quite slowly. People that actually live in the desert seem to cover up as much as possible. Look up "Tuareg" for example. -- cheers, John B. |
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