Food & Drink Jul 11, 2014 at 1:33 pm

HOTPOCALYPSE 2014: Seattle Heatwave Survival Guide

Bethany Jean Clement
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You should make this so you can multi-select neighborhoods and other criteria. It would be nice to be able to see Ballard AND Fremont or Phinney AND Green Lake or Restaurants AND Bars, for people who are a bit flexible. Also: mapify that shit.
Fnarf on July 11, 2014 at 1:42 PM Report this
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First, you'll all live. Blah, blah, it's hot (and then we have people who complain it's too gray other times of the year).

Not Arizona by a long shot.

Plus low humidity/ mosquitoes.

You'll all live.
westello on July 11, 2014 at 1:53 PM Report this
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Libraries are airconditioned--at least the one I'm about to step out of is.

And how about the Central Link Light Rail? Isn't that airconditioned, too?

(Also, those nice-looking people in the photos are now five years older than they appear there.)
seatackled on July 11, 2014 at 2:02 PM Report this
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This is truly a lovely place to live!
Pope Peabrain on July 11, 2014 at 2:14 PM Report this
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Heading to Anchorage. Fuck this climate change HeatWave. I guess the only option left is to keep moving north until the oceans boil.
on July 11, 2014 at 3:16 PM Report this
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Madison Beach is dominated by Privileged White People. I go to the beach in Leschi. More black people there. I pat myself on back for participating in Diversity is Great bullshit.
dnt trust me on July 11, 2014 at 3:28 PM Report this
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Is turning on the central AC to 75 degrees in my single family home politically incorrect? Because damn, it does feel good.
on July 11, 2014 at 3:45 PM Report this
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@2 Arizona has a very important thing that most of Seattle is lacking: Air Conditioning.

Yeah, we'll live (remember the great heat wave of '09, anyone? 113 degrees can suck a bag of dicks), but we still have to suffer thru it more than those in AZ, UT and TX (all states in which I have lived). I would include Louisiana but NOLA isn't too keen on the A/C train either.
BeezyJean on July 11, 2014 at 4:02 PM Report this
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@8: I thought we maxed at 103. 104?

people: THERE IS NO HUMIDITY HERE.
Max Solomon on July 11, 2014 at 4:24 PM Report this
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@3 The Carnegies (sp?) are not air conditioned, and have closed in the past due to excessive heat.

This is why I put curtains on my covered deck. Set up the fan and it's gonna be fucking dreamy tonight.
Rotten666 on July 11, 2014 at 4:27 PM Report this
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@8, if AC had never been invented, AZ and TX would have fewer than a million people in them combined.
Fnarf on July 11, 2014 at 5:01 PM Report this
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90' in Seattle? BRING IT ON! was in Phoenix last week 107' , yeah it's hot but wait till 4pm goto.pool with gin n tonic, then everything's OK plus Phx has gay lap dancers!
pat L on July 11, 2014 at 6:37 PM Report this
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I love sweating in my house. I love that feeling when your head gets hot and then you realize that there will be days and days of this bullshit weather.

I remember 09. That was horrid. It got to 106 at my house. No escape. Inside my house it was 92.

Right now inside my house, it's only 82 which is still too hot.

By Wednesday I'll be cranky pants about it all.

I don't give one rats ass what it is in Texas or that fucked up Arizona. Fuck Arizona. Go fucking back. Jesus.

okay, so I'm cranky already.
lauramae on July 11, 2014 at 9:48 PM Report this
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I live alone in a single family dwelling and have my A/C set comfortably at 71° and feel no shame whatsoever.
CPN on July 11, 2014 at 10:09 PM Report this
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Have people never been to the inland West? One need only drive 90 minutes east to feel what "no humidity" feels like. 85F in Seattle usually feels different from 85F in Spokane. My parents moved here from the Rocky Mountains 45 years ago, still find it damp here, and still say "but it's a dry heat" in reference to the higher temps they had more tolerance for in their home state. The shift to marine air is hard to miss when crossing the Cascades westbound, or getting off a plane from Albuquerque. Sure, it's not like the eastern half of the US here, but it's a far cry from dry as a bone.
on July 11, 2014 at 10:39 PM Report this
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Swimming pool and marijuana breaks
giraffemoo on July 11, 2014 at 11:23 PM Report this
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The time-honored PNW method of beating the heat:

1. At dusk open every window in the house.
2. Crank every fan you've got to Category 5 Hurricane.
3. Let 'em ride overnight.
4. At dawn shut every window tight to keep in the overnight cool (except upstairs, if you've got one, to let the heat vent.) Draw every shade.
5. When this trick doesn't work, head for the air conditioned mall or the movies.
Dr. Z on July 12, 2014 at 7:07 AM Report this
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there is nothing i enjoy more than watching pacific northwesterners squirm under a little nice weather.

bring it on!
tainte on July 12, 2014 at 8:08 AM Report this
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You say cops shouldn't patrol outdoor pot smoking, but I gotta disagree. I find the smell revolting and I live in the CD, which means I encounter skunky skunk most of the time when I leave my apartment. And I encounter the smell in all but the whitest neighborhoods of Seattle. You smoke on your porch? I mind much less. You smoke at the bus stop (and then get on the bus and stink up the entire bus), outside my apartment, at the park where KIDS ARE PLAYING? That shit needs to be shut down.
SamSD on July 12, 2014 at 11:33 AM Report this
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There's nothing I enjoy more than people who live up here who always have to remind us that it's too gray or that this heat is "nothing". Fuck you. It's too hot. I had to make emergency measures back in '09 because I came home from work and found my cat panting so I had to move her somewhere she could survive. I really liked the observation that if AC hadn't been invented, Texas and Arizona they wouldn't have but a million people apiece.
ortolan on July 13, 2014 at 6:35 AM Report this
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A question for all of the people who think this is awesome and the rest of the year is too gray - why did you move here in the first place?
on July 13, 2014 at 4:15 PM Report this
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In a moment of weakness last summer I bought a portable a/c for my top-floor studio in downtown Bellevue (a.k.a. Heat-Absorbing Concrete Wasteland). I only run it about three hours total on the hottest days and it is sooooo worth it to be able to sleep at night. I am from South Carolina originally, and while no, it does not get as hot or humid here, it can still get pretty unpleasant, and most of the places I have lived here are not constructed to catch a breeze. I am also a ginger, though, so the sun is my natural enemy.
Lori E. on July 14, 2014 at 3:16 PM Report this
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So I moved here from Texas (Houston to be more specific) because I pretty much hate anything above about 85 and well, it's Houston. The lack of AC here is a joke, especially given the rent, but I still love it here. My apartment is south facing with an east/west window too, but anything over 85 out and it'll be the same inside or warmer even with the blackout curtains and blinds closed all day (which sucks as it's like living in a cave). I still deal as I think back to Houston where even with AC, it is still awful and it gets me through the hot days. Even those days when it's a little humid here, it's nothing compared to Houston. These last two summers have been too warm, but only because it makes it too warm on the inside. Outside it feels fine. In the future, I'm looking for north/east facing apartments only! I did get a portable AC unit, so that at least cools down the bedroom to sleep but won't cool down the whole apartment. I just pray this isn't the new norm as I'm happy with it never getting warmer than 85 ever again. That's what vacations are for.
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