The last thing that you want to hear in the middle of an oppressively hot and humid summer day is the chance of a massive thunderstorm blowing through. Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love rain storms. The more intense they are, the better. However, when you’re in the middle of a difficult summer you really don’t want to be challenged by the potential of a damaging thunderstorm. Not only do storms tend to create even more heat and humidity after the rain has passed, but they can severely damage your local infrastructure. If you’ve ever had a power outage in the middle of summer you know how miserable that is. It’s incredibly common for our power lines to be taken out by powerful winds and hail… This means it’s incredibly common to lose air conditioning power for days at a time. Whenever we have a massive storm blowing through the area we can kiss our cooling system goodbye. We’re going to be dealing with hours or days of unmanaged indoor air temperature and oppressively uncomfortable indoor air quality. Recently, we were stuck without any air conditioning power for over a week thanks to a massive storm and power outage. Even when the electricity came back on, we had air conditioning problems to deal with. As the energy finally flowed through our house again it immediately zapped our central cooling system. Finally, we had electricity but still no AC. At least we had Wi-Fi again so I could locate the nearest heating and cooling repair shop and request an immediate air conditioning inspection.