Surviving 120 Degrees Without Air-Conditioning — How We Stay Cool All Summer

🔗 Save $6,000 A Year with My Complete Amish Home-Saving Method I teach: https://eliasyoder.com A hundred and twenty degrees, three days running, and not a soul with air conditioning to hide behind — and they came through it fine. Cool enough to sleep, cool enough to work, their houses bearable through the worst of it. Not by luck, and not by suffering it out, but by knowing the old ways of meeting a fierce heat that most folks today have clean forgotten. In this video I give you those ways — the whole of how a body keeps cool through a brutal heat wave with no machine at all, for almost nothing. I am Elias, and on this Lancaster County place we keep no tie to the public power company — which means no grid air conditioning, ever. So when the heat comes, and it comes fierce some years, we meet it the way my grandparents met it and theirs before them. I made you a video already on placing a fan to move the air, so I will not tread that ground twice. What I give you here is the rest, and to my mind the better part — how you cool your own body, how you cook without turning your house into an oven, and the old summer wisdom that goes well past any fan. In this video: ✔️ The one rule the whole thing hangs on — shut and shade the house by day, open it wide to the cool of the night ✔️ Why blocking the SUN matters more than just shutting the windows — and which windows to guard hardest ✔️ The timing folks get wrong — why opening up too early in the evening undoes your whole day's work ✔️ How the walls and floors of a house hold the night's cool and carry you through the next hot day ✔️ Minding your doors — why every door opened in the heat floods your house with hot air, and the simple plan for it ✔️ The heart of it all: you do not need to cool the whole house, only your own body — a far cheaper, easier thing ✔️ The cold wet cloth at the neck and the pulse points — how it cools your whole self fast, and the plain reason it works ✔️ The honest truth about dry heat versus wet heat, and which tricks serve you best in each ✔️ Keeping your cooking heat OUT of the house — cooking cool, cooking late, or best of all the old summer-kitchen way ✔️ Planting a deciduous shade tree (or a fast-growing vine) that cools you in summer and lets the winter sun through ✔️ Seeking the water and the cool low places — and living and working by the cool hours the old farmers kept These are the ways whole generations lived through worse heat than most of us will ever see, with not a machine among them — and they did not perish. They kept cool, slept sound, and went about their work, by nothing but the knowing. And your power bill will be a small fraction of your neighbor's who never learned there was another way. How hot do your summers run, and how do you fight the heat? Will you try the cold cloth at the neck on the next sleepless hot night? Tell me in the comments below. And tell me what part of the country you write from, for the dry heat and the wet are two different beasts to fight, and I learn a great deal from where you all sit when you write. Next time, I will show you a good deal more about cutting that summer power bill down — well past the cooling alone — all the quiet little ways a house bleeds money and power through the hot months, and how the old people kept their costs down near to nothing through a long summer. There is a quiet strength in knowing the summer cannot beat you — that you can meet the worst it brings with your own two hands and a little inherited sense, and never once depend on a machine or dread the bill it brings. The people who built this country with their hands knew that, and we are only just starting to remember it. #StayingCool #NoAirConditioning #HeatWave #OffGrid #Homestead #SelfReliance #OldWays #BeatTheHeat #SummerTips #FrugalLiving #NaturalLiving #SummerKitchen #Homesteading #EliasYoder