mornin' Kelly.

yeah, that was my greatest fear too... and it got really bad with the constant rolling blackouts in California in 2000 and 2001.

so, I froze ziplock bags of water, and half-gallon (OJ - the kind with screw-caps!) bottles for emergencies.

ya gotta have lots of towels on hand if you use that tip though, lol !!

and I bought some of those gel headbands and kerchiefs that freeze, and a portable battery-powered FAN too !!

http://www.safetycentral.com/coboxpobaopr.html

we also had big pieces of cardboard that we put in the windows on the sunny side of the house, to keep the house from heating up

here's some other tricks for when A/C croaks in a power outage:

http://www.associatedcontent.com/art...wer.html?cat=5

PS: my son is named Matt too, lol !!