My AC Died, and I spent about 20 hours without it.
This is in upstate South Carolina.
I’ve got it back now, thank goodness. And the temp is now cooled down inside to where it is livable.
I have decided that if for some reason I couldn’t have air-conditioning in the summer, due to carbon emissions or something, I will have to spend at least June, July, and August in Newfoundland.
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small mining town. During the 50s, we used to visit them in the summer months. Back then, nobody had air conditioning. Cars didn't, either, so we used to drive there at night across the desert.
What my grandparents did have, though, was a swamp cooler in a window in the living room. It used the evaporation of water and a fan to provide cooler air indoors. A cloth loop was dipped into water at the bottom of the cooler, and then a pair of rollers operated by a hand crank let you move the wet cloth up in front of a fan.
In the low desert humidity, the swamp cooler would lower the temperature in the room from the 100+ degree temps outdoors to something in the 80s.
I remember sitting in a chair near the swamp cooler as a child of 8 or 9, rolling up the cloth every now and then to get the cooling started again. That was my job while we were there. At night, the temperature went down somewhat, so you could sleep, but it was still in the mid-80s.
And that's how I learned about the refrigeration cycle and evaporative cooling. We finally go a portable swamp cooler for our old 1952 Plymouth station wagon. It hung out of the rear side window. I got to operate that, too, when we traveled to the desert.
AC is wonderful!
Mr.Dixie spends afternoons in his man cave/tool-shed outside,no a/c. It is tucked into a line of trees,
but still, gets hot. He manages to keep cool with fans, ice cooler of water,etc. as he putters around.
Then comes in at dinner time and complains the house is too cold, at 76 degrees, after all day in a heat index of 105.
Luckily, we have separate wings of the house, so I can crank up the window A/C in my bedroom at night,
and/or retreat to my den off that bedroom and stay cool with fans.
I think that is the secret to 20 some years of happy marriage down here in the South.
86 and climbing.
The humidity makes it so much worse.
I feel like getting in the refrigerator. 
Our AC went out and we had no money to fix it, so we sweated 
We finally had to bite the bullet when the furnace motor quit. We had to use the fan only feature to circulate air..
And even though we lived in a desert area, it does get pretty cool at night, so it was a relief to finally put some blankets away..
Our boys were happy to have temperature control after so long without it..me too !
Well it didn't die, but the condenser was clogged and overflowing onto the basement floor whenever we ran it. Since the basement's finished, obviously this couldn't work. Home Warranty crooks couldn't get an HVAC servicer out for almost 24 hours.
My wife almost left me when I refused to relocate to a hotel. She's from Washington (State), I'm from South Louisiana and had spent the last couple years in the Middle East, so one of us was obviously better tooled to handle that particular ordeal. 
