Last week was rather stressful around my house.
Out of nowhere we had a massive storm that blew up and destroyed a lot of things outside.
We really did not know that it was going to be a dangerous storm until a few minutes before it hit. Suddenly, the sky turned a strange color and the wind started blowing at a dangerous speed. We knew at that moment that this was no joke. We piled into the basement as the tornado sirens started going off all around us. When all was said and done we emerged from the basement and found that we had lost power. Of course, it’s inconvenient not to have lights in your modern home. Walking into a room and hitting every light switch seems to be an instinctive action. However, the biggest problem was our lack of air conditioning. It’s the dead of the summer season and the outdoor air temperature is nothing to sneeze at. It has been extremely hot and humid for months already. As you can imagine, emerging into our house where we had no cooling system was an unpleasant sensation. That night we could barely sleep as we tried to battle the heat and humidity indoors. We were aghast when we heard from neighbors that we weren’t going to get power back and therefore air conditioning power back for at least 3 days. The next several days were extremely uncomfortable as we attempted to live without any kind of indoor air temperature control. The stagnant, humid air was choking and the heat was impressive. I’m happy to report, we got power and air conditioning back late last night.