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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP it's kind of nuts to me that you typically bail out and go to a hotel when you lose power for a couple of days. You must be wealthy.[/quote]

OP here - what do you do when you lose power in the summer? Sit in the house when it's 90 degrees?  [/quote]

NP, but... yes. We also have a couple battery operated fans and extra blackout blinds -- if it cools off at all overnight or in the early morning, we open everything up to let the cooler air in, and then close it up and put up the blinds before the sun comes up. This can make the house at least tolerable for a few days. If you can go other places during the day (work, school, camp, library, mall, museum movie theater) you can get the break you need as well.

Once we went two weeks with no A/C in a DC summer as we'd just gotten ours replaced and the new install didn't work. Like at all. Took two weeks to replace. It was brutal but we did it, and definitely did go stay in a hotel given we'd already just spent over 10k replacing our HVAC system. But in that situation we did have power, just not A/C, so were able to run ceiling fans and a high powered floor fan our HVAC company provided, that we turned into a swamp cooler by putting behind a cooler full of ice. So not as bad as having no power at all, though a longer period of time than any power outage we've had.[/quote]

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