Never Want This to Happen in Summer

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If there is one thing you never want to happen in the summer (or approaching the summer months), is to have your air conditioning system in your house go down. But that's exactly what I thought happened to mine yesterday. When my daughter got home from work, she asked me what that noise was coming from the closet where the A/C handler is. I told her I didn't hear anything, but when I opened the closet door I could hear what she heard...dripping water. And worse, my coils were starting to freeze over. Ugh, not good at all. I started with the easiest diagnosis, in that the drain pan was overflowing because the drain line was clogged. Grabbed the wet/dry vac and headed outside and hooked it up to the drain line. Sure enough, globs of moldy water came pouring out after a few minutes of suction. I ended up sucking out lots and lots of water, then went back in and checked the drain pan. All the water gone. I put a chem tab in (helps keep mold and mildew from building up in the drain line), left the A/C off for an hour to let the coils thaw, then turned it back on and hoped for the best. Thankfully, all is well and the A/C is running again, nice and cool, and the pan is draining as it should. Crisis averted. And I didn't have to call an HVAC technician and spend oodles of money to fix the A/C. It never fails that something breaks just when you need it most! What is something that failed you just when you needed it most?