It’s been a long time since it’s been so hot.
Our normal June temperatures are in the upper seventies and low eighties.
July is almost here, but we have had two low-level heat waves already.
We sometimes see a temperature that gets to ninety during June, but not temperatures in the low nineties for days at a time. It’s not like we have broken any records as far as heat in June, but I’m getting older and I don’t deal with it as well. When our central air conditioning broke down, it was even worse. The temperature was 103 and I could hear the air conditioning unit laboring. I thought the AC unit was just having a hard time keeping up with the outside temperature. The temperature in the house was going up as quickly as it was going up outside. That’s when I realized there was no sound coming from the air conditioning unit. I quickly called the HVAC company and told them I had an emergency. The harried receptionist quipped that I was one in over thirty people who needed help with their air conditioning and thought it was an emergency. I felt bad for the receptionist, but I still needed to get some help. She told me she would try to fit me in the next morning, but she couldn’t guarantee it. She told me that the heat wave was supposed to end today and it was only going to be eighty. At least I had some good news, even though I still had to go without AC for the next twenty-four hours. I called my brother and asked if I could stay with him for the night.