Last month, we had a major storm come through the area and it caused a great deal of damage.
Several homes were damaged from the wind and rain.
Power poles were down everywhere and the electricity was shut down for two whole days. After the storm passed, several businesses were shut down for days. One of those businesses was the daycare where both of my children go to school each day. The director of the daycare called me first thing on Monday morning to report the power outage. Since the power was still out, they couldn’t heat or cool the building. They were using a generator to keep the lights working. Without central AC, the indoor temperatures were going to be unbearable. The director of the daycare suggested keeping the kids home. The place was going to stay open, but they warned me that the AC would not be working. They had a couple fans plugged into the wall, but it was still very warm and humid in the building. I had to go to work, so I dropped off the kids and drove away. At lunch time. My wife stopped by to pay the daycare bill for the week. She said it was ninety degrees in the building. The kids were flushed and red and they were panting. They seemed to be very dehydrated. My wife did not return to work. Instead, she took both of the kids home for the rest of the afternoon. We didn’t take the kids back to school until they fixed the problem with the indoor air quality.