Can’t imagine life without air conditioning
Even though we are enjoying the best weather of the year, I still can’t help but think about the coming heat and humidity.
It won’t be long before those twins are playing havoc with our lives.
If you want to live down here and enjoy some of the best weather for more than half the year, you have to deal with summer. The heat and humidity really come down about the first week of June. And that level of heat and humidity continues all the way through September. There are even weeks into October where it’s still really hot. So when I’m enjoying highs in the upper sixties and all the sunshine I can stand, I still think about the summer. Sometimes I wonder what it must have been like for my ancestors to live through our summers without residential HVAC. I simply can’t imagine having to live without air conditioning. I’m a native of the area so I may use less air conditioning than say someone who’s moved down here from the north. But I still have to have that cooling comfort to get through the summer. Otherwise, I think I would just be a sweaty mess. But I do think about folks like my father who didn’t have residential HVAC when he was growing up. So obviously, it can be done but I doubt there are many homes around here that don’t come with all kinds of air conditioning. For one thing, the air conditioning mitigates mold and mildew in our homes. I can’t even imagine the amount of cleaning one would have to do if there wasn’t air conditioning. Extreme heat and humidity are exactly what mold and mildew need to thrive. So again, we have a lot to be thankful for when it comes to air conditioning and our heat pump.