As the thermometer inside Shelley Snyder’s three-story Victorian home in Columbus, Ohio, hits 88 degrees, she is finishing a meeting with a new maid service, watering plants, and doing chores. And she’s doing it all without air conditioning.
Snyder said she is just fine without it. Even during heat advisories, she’s found ways to cope.
“We wait all winter so we can open the windows and doors and let fresh air and summer in,” she told a reporter on a day the heat index exceeded 100 degrees…