This isn’t the first heat wave France has experienced in recent years.....you’d think people woulda learned their lesson.
I’ve had a 13,000 btu stand in the corner unit for hurricane season for at least 5 years.
Never needed it yet but it’ll be there if I do.
And I damned sure didn’t pay $1,300 bucks for it either.
Same as the majority of people who only have a couple days worth of food in the house.
Same as people running to get a generator a day before a category 4 is supposed to hit.
Elderly French citizens have been reportedly dying of summer heat for several decades.
My sister and her husband moved to Portland, OR after living in Maryland and Nebraska. When they interviewed a realtor, they told them to show only houses with central air. The realtor thought they were nuts but when it got warm, their house was a favorite place for friends to hang out.
We rented an AirBnB when my nephew got married out there and changed it when we found out they didn’t have A/C.