It has been hot this week. Really hot. 100 + degrees hot. I know, my friends and family down south are laughing. I can hear them already. It been hot down there for a while but what they forget is we are not equipped to handle the heat up here.
I don't just mean we aren't used to it. We aren't, but I mean the infrastructure as well. This past week, NJ Transit had delays all over the rail lines because train engines would get too hot triggering an automatic shut down.
Then there is the lack of air conditioning. I remember in Houston, there were parking garages that had air conditioning. I am not joking. Here, most people don't have central air in their houses or their apartments. At best, most have a few window units.
Our next door neighbor has a gas grill outside by their garage they cook on almost everyday during the summer because it is too hot to cook in the kitchen.
We are luckier than most as the back of our house is a fairly recent addition and we have central air back there. The vents run into a couple of bathrooms, the family room and the play room. We have one vent in the kitchen as well. There is no central air in the front of the house or upstairs. We do have a few window units upstairs though.
Our air conditioner in the back of the house ran non-stop for about 4 days and still the temperature in the downstairs area was 80 or above. In our son's room upstairs where there is no window unit, the temperature would reach 98. Needless to say, he slept in our room for several nights.
It has started to cool down a bit. We still can't get much of the house below 78 but at least we've broken 80 now. And things are looking up , tomorrow the high is only supposed to be 80. Maybe we won't melt after all.
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