Having central air conditioning is a necessity in the southeastern part of the country year round. Even the winter months can get insanely hot, with highs in the upper 80s and oppressive humidity. I’m fortunate to have working air conditioning, but lately I have been having difficulty with the air cooling to what I have been setting it to on the thermostat. One morning before leaving my home for work, I set the thermostat to 76 degrees as I always do. I don’t like for the system to run constantly while I am not home, because then I’m spending money for cooling an area that I am not in at the time. When I return home in the evening I crank the A/C back down to 73 degrees, which is a very comfortable temperature for me. One evening I noticed, though, that the A/C system had a really difficult time getting the air temperature down to what I had set it at. Being ignorant of all of the potential reasons why this was happening did not help me at all. I just chalked it up to believing that because it had been a really hot day, the system was struggling to get the air cooled. When I woke up the next morning, I got up to two inches of water on the floor around the closet that my air handler is housed in. I immediately started panicking, turned off the A/C and ran around looking for towels to mop up the water. I don’t know what made me look in the tubing that was attached to the handler, but I noticed that water was coming from it. There was a huge clog in the pipe, and once I cleared it out it seemed to solve the problem.