stay cool tips for a power outage

Some thoughts for staying cool in a power outage.
Before an outage hits stock up the freezer with bottles and containers of water & milk for cold cereal. Stock up the empty spaces in the fridge with water, that should help the fridge stay cooler, longer during a power outage. Buy powdered drink mixes and have them on hand. Powdered milk isn't going to go bad. Ollie always told me that if you don't open the fridge much during a power outage that the food will stay cool enough to be safe to eat for at least 24 hours.
Take a bottle of ice with you everywhere you go in a heatwave, instead of warm water to drink , for a little while anyway, you'll have ice water. I recommend placing the bottle of ice on the inside of your arm where blood gets drawn to cool off the blood circulating through your body. Kind of like a heatwave shiatsu thingy or something. Heck, you might want to start freezing bottles of water or other beverages to make some extra money during a heatwave/power outage. You can always put the ice from the freezer in the fridge to keep the food cooler when the extra water stored in there has warmed up too much. And pray, pray, pray that someone develops a chain of spas to cool people off and revive them.

Comments

[Noandsoshabby]

Great ideas! Never thought to fill empty space with water!

[Cloudfeathers]

Can you imagine how much better it would have been for folks during the last major hurricane if they only had been told to make a ton of ice and refrigerate clean water. Everyone would have been a little less stressed out!