If you have ever lived in an area of the country where there are hurricanes, you assume that the afternoons after a hurricane rips through your neighborhood can be worse than the actual hurricane itself.
If it is a really devastating storm, rated a 4 or 5 on the scale, your neighborhood is likely to struggle to rebuild for years to come.
If it’s just a small hurricane that doesn’t directly hit you, though, there will be problems, but not devastating problems. Mostly, you will be inconvenienced for a few afternoons, but periodically up to multiple weeks. What causes all the trouble after a hurricane? Lack of electricity! When there is no power, it is hard to get all the stuff the two of us are accustomed to that makes our lives nicer. Air conditioning is number one in our book. Without a/c, life is pure misery around here. Hurricane season, as it is known here, is in the summer. That means control units all over the area generally learn in the 90s. That also means that people are switching their control units down a few degrees to make sure the a/c kicks in and does its task, but, after a hurricane, there is no power, so flipping the switch on the air conditioner will result in absolutely nothing. There will be cooling – or heating, either, for that matter – providing sweet relief. It’s also impossible to get gas for your car. Gas pumps work on electricity, so you better fill up before the storm arrives or you will be in trouble. A lot of times the HVAC systems at massive places adore hospitals will suffer destruction, so the little men adore us can’t even get the HVAC crew out to the house if the two of us have trouble.