Air Conditioning

Brothers, Jed and Wyatt, of Windcrest, Texas were glad to be inside their 1969 Ford F-100 pickup, commuting on their way to work. It’s heater was doing yeoman’s work in warming their frigid bones that shivered all night, back home without electricity in the overnight, subfreezing temperatures. More than 270,000 of their county neighbors had suffered the same plight.
Driving by the wind farm, Jed piped up and said, “I love wind energy!”
“It is so clean, so beautiful, so efficient.”
“It’s amazing! I don’t know how they do it; all that cold, winter wind stored for summer air conditioning.”
Placing his fingers over the dashboard heater vent, he sighed, “Ahhh!”
Wyatt sat there, nearly speechless, but found the breath to spout off, “Yeah, like all that warm wind they stored last summer that kept us so warm last night.”
Thinking deeply, Jed replied, “Maybe they don’t store the warm summer wind because the earth is already too hot from global warming.”
Wyatt, with his own fingers now half thawed; turned the radio dial up just as KTSA 550 AM news talk’s Trey Ware announced, “Folks, be careful out there this morning. It’s a balmy 9 degrees below freezing.”
February 17, 2021 – by Derrick Urquhart