While some people have generators, our family did not, and both of us had to deal with a month without power and a way to cool our home, however my mother lives with us, and she has to stay comfortable and cool in order to manage her health, and I was left without a way to help her.
The Summer months in the southeastern US are tepid and humid, and they also bring the trepidation of potential hurricane activity. We were blessed for more than 2 years to not have active hurricane seasons, but this past Summer has seen hit after hit from hurricanes in our surrounding area. Tensions have been seriously high in our community, since both of us never think where the next storm will make landfall. Watching the expansive damage to other areas create an atmosphere of fear and unparticularty, and while both of us all prepare to the best of our abilities, you still never think what might happen, but about a month ago, our area was unblessed enough to experience a direct hit from a major hurricane. One of the most hard parts of going through a hurricane is the loss of power and our only way of staying comfortable in the heat; a/c. While some people have generators, our family did not, and both of us had to deal with a month without power and a way to cool our home, however my mother lives with us, and she has to stay comfortable and cool in order to manage her health, and I was left without a way to help her. We had a few battery powered fans that minimally helped, but nothing could upgrade the ease of a central a/c. In order to stay relatively cool, both of us would take short trips to the few grocery stores that had power restored to them. Even walking around the aisles that had charmingly cold a/c streaming through them was enough to retain our sanity while in this trying time. This really taught us how dependent both of us are on the comfort of having a/c, and how much both of us take having access to cool air for granted.