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Unberable heat waves - Chennai [message #401065]

Fri, 01 May 2009 06:34

dr.s.raghunathan
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Registered: February 2008

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hi.
unbearable heat waves and touching 110 F at Neyveli, tamilnadu, India. Heat waves sucks almost 30 to 40% of the productivity and efficiency loss. Air-conditioner is the good solution but india is under developed country and can not afford electricity towards air-condition since it is always a scarcity commodity. Infact Electricity has dominent role in the elections conducted in India. Shifting of work time is another good solution but tradition does not permit to work during night.

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Re: Unberable heat waves - Chennai [message #401066 is a reply to message #401065]

Fri, 01 May 2009 07:07

Mahesh Rajendran
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True. It scares me.
Next month I will be visiting home( Chennai, India) after almost 6 years. My 2 year old is already there and taking it easy.
I do not think I can handle it the same way.
For last decade, my lowest was ~ -20F and highest ~ 90F with the
awesome New England(USA) winter Wink

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>>but tradition does not permit to work during night.

Half the IT /back office folks are working at night to support US customers Smile

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It does not matter though. It is more humid at nights.
In the concrete jungles like Chennai, it is worse.
Last time, I could not even lean on internal walls of my home.

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Re: Unberable heat waves - Chennai [message #401070 is a reply to message #401066]

Fri, 01 May 2009 07:47

JRowbottom
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I just can't imagine havingto work in that sort of temperature.
I get uncomfortable if the temperature is over 75F

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Re: Unberable heat waves - Chennai [message #401075 is a reply to message #401070]

Fri, 01 May 2009 07:57

Frank
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JRowbottom wrote on Fri, 01 May 2009 14:47

I just can't imagine havingto work in that sort of temperature.
I get uncomfortable if the temperature is over 75F

Well, you work in North Yorkshire, where it always is sunny.

at least, according to your profile it is... Wink

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Re: Unberable heat waves - Chennai [message #401076 is a reply to message #401075]

Fri, 01 May 2009 08:01

JRowbottom
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Parts of that profile may be less than totally accurate.
And not the bit about the midges.

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Re: Unberable heat waves - Chennai [message #401109 is a reply to message #401066]

Fri, 01 May 2009 12:27

Barbara Boehmer
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Registered: November 2002
Location: California, USA

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Around here, the temperature ranges from about 30F on the coldest winter nights to about 113F on the hottest summer days. Now that I am retired, on hot days, I get up early and do as much as I can of the things that require moving around a lot, then do things that I can do sitting at my desk in front of a fan. Sometimes on a real hot afternoon I either take a nap on the couch under a fan or sit in a bathtub of cool water and read something for half an hour. I gave up trying to fix the air conditioning years ago. It always broke again shortly after it was "fixed". We used to have troubles with the air conditioning where I used to work too, which was one of the reasons I used to enjoy working at night. It also meant there was less traffic driving to and from and fewer people, so it was quieter. When I did get stuck working on hot days, I drank a lot of cold water.

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Re: Unberable heat waves - Chennai [message #401151 is a reply to message #401109]

Fri, 01 May 2009 17:53

rleishman
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Registered: October 2005
Location: Melbourne, Australia

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Yep, I hear all that. We had a big heat wave in Summer (fuelled the bad bushfires we had). Heat waves never last long in Melbourne - 2-3 days, 4 tops - so we are fairly intolerant of hot weather and looooooove our air-con. Problem is it was SO hot that everyone had the air-com cranked to the max and overloaded the grid. To make it worse, the bushfires were taking out some of the overland high voltage lines. End result: grumpy hot people sitting in the dark.

It's all good now though. Winter has come early. Overnight lows below 10C and up to a metre of snow in the Victorian alps.

I can recommend either wet towels to replace bed-sheets, or a Melbourne holiday. No midges here.

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Re: Unberable heat waves - Chennai [message #407602 is a reply to message #401151]

Wed, 10 June 2009 11:46

JRowbottom
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Nah - poisonous spiders ate all the midges.

(with apologies to the advert)

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