What to Do with Your Air Conditioner Before the Storm

As the coastal areas of Acadiana will have to deal with high winds and flooding on Wednesday and Thursday of this week due to Francine, people continue to make preparations.

One of the toughest parts of any storm is paying a visit to Louisiana and what happens during and after the storm has moved on from your area. Typically, areas that have been hit with higher winds have seen downed powerlines in their community. It never seems to fail that scorching heat descends on Louisiana. If you have no electricity, and you can't fire up the air conditioner that already adds to the misery visited on Louisiana residents when a storm moves in.

Jarred Leblanc of Leblanc's Affordable A/C & Heating LLC suggests that you allow your air conditioner to cool your home as much as possible until a storm makes landfall in your area. He says at that point, once your house is cool, it can help it to stay that way if the electricity goes out.

Now, you'll have to do your best not to open the doors so that you can keep as much cool air in your home as possible. And while your attention is focused on the cooling of your home, it's also a great idea to change the filter in your air conditioner as Leblanc says your AC will run much more efficiently.

Leblanc reminds everyone to turn off their electricity panel if they lose power to your home. It is a safety issue. Leblanc says when your electricity is out, you need to turn off the panel so that when linemen restore power to your area you don't want that power to feed back to them and hurt them. In addition, Leblanc says you don't want a surge back to your air conditioner or appliances and ruining them either.

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