Living without A/C is not fun.

Weenie . I grew up in the Triangle in NC without A/C. I do feel for y'all, though.

We went almost a week without power one summer after Hurricane Fran came through. Now that was truly miserable. I managed to buy the second to last small generator 85 miles away: we could run a refridgerator, a fan, a couple lights and the tv (broadcast stations only - all the cable was pulled down with the power lines). I had to get up every night at 3 am to put more gas in it (and only a couple stations in town had power to pump gas). I hope to never go through anything like it again.

-jk