I've heard that you can kinda make an AC with a fan and a bucket of ice water, but I've never done that myself.
This kept me alive in college. I was in a dorm with no A/C in southwestern Arkansas, and the best way to keep cool overnight was to position the fan pointing right at the bed, and put a bucket of ice in a bowl directly in front of the fan, so the air blows sort of into and over it. By morning the ice is water, but it really helped a lot. With the kitties in play, you could try one in front of each fan, let the fans oscillate, and the kitties will probably flop out in front of the breeze.
Unless they're like my cat, who, on the hottest days, always found the hottest place in the house for napping. :)
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Date: 2011-07-21 06:16 pm (UTC)This kept me alive in college. I was in a dorm with no A/C in southwestern Arkansas, and the best way to keep cool overnight was to position the fan pointing right at the bed, and put a bucket of ice in a bowl directly in front of the fan, so the air blows sort of into and over it. By morning the ice is water, but it really helped a lot. With the kitties in play, you could try one in front of each fan, let the fans oscillate, and the kitties will probably flop out in front of the breeze.
Unless they're like my cat, who, on the hottest days, always found the hottest place in the house for napping. :)