Dozens of DC Residents Go Days W/O AC, Some 10 Days, Amid Scorching Heat, 95 Degrees

[appalachiablue]

- NBC Washington, By Cory Smith, July 13, 2021.

Dozens of residents of an apartment building in Northeast D.C. have reached their boiling point after going without air conditioning for days amid the intense heat and humidity. The thermostat inside Renee Robinson’s apartment at Paradise at Parkside read 86 degrees Tuesday.

She and several others at the complex on Hayes Street NE have had no working air conditioning for 10 days.

"Here it is the 13th I still have no air. My son is 3 years old. My son has asthma," Robinson told News4. "It’s no way he should be in the house consistently with no AC." Robinson said her AC went out on July 3.

She called the Paradise at Parkside business office after the long holiday weekend and they told her someone would come by to fix it, she said, but they never did. The complex provided box fans to her and some of her neighbors, but with temperatures in the 90s it doesn’t do much. "The high for today is 95 degrees. It's already 86 degrees in my house. It’s just like, what do y’all want us to do at this point?" Robinson said...

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~ Recently I posted an article here on extreme heat & storm threats in the DC area. A pair of posters commented, *well, it is summer.* I hope they read this news, & provide solutions.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

1. At what point does landlord

Laziness and greed become abuse?

Those people are suffering and the apartment landlord needs to do something.

Tenants if they organize can put their rents in escrow together and the landlord if he wants the rent paid will be forced to fix the AC.

With climate change the AC will be lifesaving and as nessesary to life as having heat is.

The sooner this is enforced the better.

I have heat intolerance.
Get overheated easily due to health issues.

If I had to live 10 days in heat I'd want to kill myself.

For me 86 degrees feels like 90. Depending on humidity.
When it climbs into the 90's I stay inside because that kind of heat can literally kill me.

[appalachiablue]

2. It's inexcusable, they've spoken with

TV news, and I hope tenants receive more help if no local groups are actively working on this. In an urban environment with concrete, buildings, asphalt and little green space the conditions are intolerable. These residents urgently need assistance.

Thanks for your post, I understand and also find high heat and humidity more oppressive with with time.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

3. What scares me

Is that if AC is not treated as nessesary for sustaining life,a lot of people will die as the wet bulb temperature rises as climate change progresses.

There is no excuse for not making it a nessesary for human life like heat in winter is . Your heat cannot be cut off when the temperature gets dangerously low.

I'm really scared of the summers in the future I dispised summer for decades and it's only going to get worse.

[appalachiablue]

4. Real concerns, life and death and

at this rate the future looks serious for humans in terms of heat tolerance, extreme weather events, more insect-born diseases, shortages of food, water, more. Rough waters..

[I_UndergroundPanther]

5. This needs to get to the greatest page

It will become a serious issue in the future,and of course the poor will be exploited and denied help again.