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This post IS MUSIC-RELATED if you gigging in the hot sun.

Self-test for dehydration:

Use thumb and forefinger to pinch the skin on the back of your hand. When released it should return to flat almost instantly. If not, you are dehydrating.

Re-hydration Drink

You can make an inexpensive homemade re-hydration drink. Measure all ingredients precisely. Small variations can make the drink less effective or even harmful.  
Mix:

1 quart (950 ml) water
½ teaspoon (2.5 g) baking soda
½ teaspoon (2.5 g) table salt
3 to 4 tablespoons (45 to 60 g) sugar
If available, add ¼ teaspoon (1.25 g) salt substitute, such as "Lite Salt".

This simple concoction also replaces critical electrolytes lost through perspiration.

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Hi Don,

I just poured all of my baking soda into the swimming pool. Guess I'll have to settle for a Diet Coke.

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I just poured all my baking soda in the pool too! Still not looking good though. I think the test strips are bad.


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How do you tell if your pool's dehydrated?


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When you dive in and get a concussion!!


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I just replaced the sand in the filter. If this doesn't work my pool will become dehydrated for the rest of the summer. It's 97 degrees here; may not sound like much to the southerners, but up here it is HOT! Hopefully it clears up and I can actually use it.


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you kids are funny nuts! it was intended to be serious though. two weeks of 105+ F down here, projected to go into august, and our elderly are toppling like dominoes. not funny to them.

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I recently played an outdoor gig in Cascade, Idaho. It was close to 90 degrees and the elevation is close to 5000 ft. Though there was a canopy over the stage, because of where I was set up I got stuck in the sun for several hours. I got pretty woozy there for a while and didn't feel too good at all. I hate outdoor gigs! Besides the discomfort issue, I'm constantly tuning my guitar. And there are NO acoustics.

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Sorry Don. Despite the joking, I did take your post seriously and I believe that others did also.

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The neighbours are in danger of their igloo melting. Never had to shovel the heat yet though. The sled dogs are panting up a storm. I consider de-hydration a failure to purchase enough beer. I still prefer beer than you keep under the bed the perfect temperature, but that was from 15 years of living in lumber camps.

It is going to be 37C here on Thursday.


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I mixed up Don's concoction & poured it in my pool. It doesn't fill it up much! (but it doesn't look as dry...) LOL!

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Drink enough of that beer John you may make it to a 38 Double D !

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Don Gaynor:

Thanks so much for the delightful recipe. Sadly, where I live, it's not been a hot summer at all. In fact, many people are complaining that summer hasn't arrived yet. So far this year, we've had two (2) days that got to 20 Celsius (that's 68 F for the rest of you). So I guess we've had two days of summer.

We get quite a few visitors from the US, but this year they're not too happy with our current heat wave (it reached about 18 C today = 62.6 F).

Might try the formula next year.

Oh yes, and we're getting rain to go along with it. Setting records for precip this time of year. I've lived here eleven years, and have rarely seen any rain at all in June and July until this year - want some?

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Here in Virginia, on the coast, it is about exactly the same as it was last summer and the summer before that, etc. Hot, with inreasing hot until Fall.

But we have the beach, with the biggest heatsink in the world pounding the shore...


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105F or 41C and our a/c just died. maintenance bloke to the rescue. circuit breakers fried. panic city here with all of old flatulents to worry about.

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Well, you OK so far?


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Yesterday we hit a record 101F in our backyard, and this was in the shade!

Today we were a cool 95F, and this in upper Western New York State near Lake Ontario.


Whenever I get something stuck in the back of my throat, I dislodge it by drinking a beer.
It's called the Heineken Maneuver.

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105° yesterday. 100° today. It's cooling off!!

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yes, maintenance guy came in and changed out a couple of fried breakers.

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