Tuesday, July 14, 2009
102 and No AC...kill me now
Texas heat has been an adjustment for our family, to say the least. We used to think Poway got hot, but it doesnt compare to a Texas Summer day. The heat and humidity here are in a league of their own. Yesterday we had gone to the pool around 2:00 and returned home about 3:00 an hour is about all you can manage when it's 102 outside. Sawyer went down for a little rest and I was playing the Wii. It was warm inside but I figured I was warm from working out on the Wii. That may have been part of it. When I had finished " excercising" which is really more like playing. It was getting very uncomfortable inside, it struck me that I couldn't here the AC blowing, I went to check on it and it was set at 75 NO WAY it was 75 in here. I called Paul and quickly told me there was nothing he could do about it from work and to call the office. I called the office and the after a few questions the office manager decided that the breaker just needed to be flipped, well this presented a couple of problems for me 1) I have no idea where the breaker box is and 2) which switch do I flip? I finally found the breaker box and lucky for me the switches were marked accordingly. I flipped the switch and nothhing, I flipped it again and still nothing. I called back and explained what had happened....NOTHING. She said she would call maintenence. Great I'm excited becasue at this point its almost unbearable in here. Finally (about 45 minutes later) the guy shows up to tell me the compressor has blown, and they cant get another one till tomorrow, instantly I ask him if we are going to die here tonight. See unlike San Diego and Poway, Texas is hot during the day AND at night. It never cools off here. I mean its 97 at 10:30 at night. I didnt know what we were going to do, if we would have been at home we would have paced up and headed to the in-laws for the night, we dont have the Luxury here. The maintenece guy said they could put in a window unit for us, but he said its tiny and will not cool your house down. WOW that sounds great, where do we sign up for that. Anyways with no other options we took the little window unit and decided we would try and cool off the living room enough that we could sleep in there without dying in our sleep. He put it in and explained that the new compressor SHOULD be in tomorrow by 2 and fully installed by 3, but he couldnt promise anything, again really reassuring. He went on his way and Sawyer and I sat in living room hovering around this mini AC unit. I know this sounds like a lot of complaining, so I have decided to tell you the pros about this situation, 1) It was too hot to cook dinner so we got to go out when Paul got home. We had Chipotle. 2) We got to spend the evening with our great friends the Palmers who opended there home to us while we waited for our sauna I mean house to cool off enough for us to sleep, we always enjoy our time there. And 3) Sawyer had his first camp "in". Now back to the complaining, I'm writing this post from my living room, again hovering around the little AC unit in our window as it is 88 degrees already and it's only 8:00 AM. it's supposed to be 103 today YIKES. 2:00 Pm can't come fast enough today. My dear friend Stephanie has been so kind to come rescue us in a little bit and take us to Costco with her so we can get out of this heat. Stephanie you're the best. Please pray for the safe delivery of our new air compressor and that our day flies by and 2:00 comes fast.
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AAHHHHHHH!!!!!!! What is wrong with this stupid blogsite?
ReplyDeleteOMG...now it's working?????
ReplyDeleteI had written a whole story about my broken ac experience but the stupid story would not post.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, sorry about your broken ac. I will say an extra prayer for you as you suffer through another day.