At the first sign of power being offer more than an hour, my husband called a hotel that was within a few miles of home
During the summer we often have pop-up thunderstorms in our area. The heat and humidity combined, and it is the perfect situation for pop-up thunderstorms and/or tornado watches. For two hours, our lights were flickering, and I knew we would eventually lose power. The temperature was in the 90s, and if we lost power, we would have no air conditioning. My husband hadn’t had our generator service earlier this summer, and he was half afraid to use it. At the end of last summer, the generator was sputtering and doing gas out, which was not a good thing. Luckily, we didn’t need to use the generator all last summer. This summer was going to be different. We had already lost power twice, but it came on within an hour and we didn’t really miss the air conditioning unit. If our power when out on this day, it would probably be out the entire night. Not only would we have to go without air conditioning, but my husband’s oxygen and BiPAP would not be working. I was worrying more about him with his oxygen BiPAP, then I was about my asthma and not having air conditioning. At the first sign of power being offer more than an hour, my husband called a hotel that was within a few miles of home. When they told him they only had one vacant room, he told him to save it and we would be there within an hour. We packed up his CPAP and portable oxygen, and headed to the hotel, hoping their air conditioning would continue working.