Hazen and Sauna

We haven't had any A/C in the office all week because of a fire on the 5th floor the building (24 stories in all) on Monday morning. Not everyone is affected though. Some floors have air and electricity, certain sections of floors have electeicity, but no air, and many cobinations there of. The elevator's have A/C, so when you step off those in the morning onto the 11th floor, you can feel the heavy, humid heat hit you like a bag of bricks. We're keeping most of the office lights out to stay cool as possible, although the lights in the bathroom simply don't work. We were peeing in absolute darkness until someone finally put some office lamps on the sink counter.

Yesterday, someone brought in one of those large clock-like thermometers that hang on the wall. I walked by it around 4 o'clock and nearly fainted when I saw the reading- 88 degrees! No wonder I was sweating bullets while barely moving a muscle in my office chair. It's bearable in the morning, but from 2-5, the greenhouse effect kicks in and we all start roasting and basting in our own sweat. Nobody comes to work in a suit or a shirt and tie anymore- it looks like we're all going to the gym in our shorts and t-shirts.

Meanhwhile, the office comptroller sent this email out to everyone yesterday explaining why it's taking so long to fix the air conditioning. Oh, the irony!

Work to repair the damaged buss section has been ongoing since the outage occurred on Monday -

Fortunately, the damaged pieces are manufactured by Siemens Corp, a tenant in the building, who has been without power on two of their floors - They have been able to expedite the shipping of replacement parts - those parts are in the process of being installed -

The current estimate for power and air restoration is after hours Friday, so one more day -

We'll send any updates as they are received -