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

- 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.