Reply #17: With the window unit you can just cool one room.

[texanwitch]

After Ike last year I learned how to make a cooling pillow, it is very cheap.

Take a two gallon zip lock bag and fill the bottom with about two or three inches of ice or very cold water.

Close it up and use it like a pillow, the zip lock bag as plenty of air in it.

Keep the ice or cold water on the back of your neck, it will really cool you down.

I did this, we had a few really hot sticky nights here last year.

Stay safe.