“We ran out of fans”. This was the response we got in all shops over the weekend. Yes, a machine using an electric motor to rotate thin, rigid vanes in order to move air, as for cooling [link].

I was speechless when I got the same answer again and again. 'Standing fans' are sold out in almost every shop here. The Sun was scorching like anything. This is the hottest weekend I have experienced here. And whatever Data Mining the stores used, it had failed to a great extent. Most of the stores didn’t do proper prediction. One guy even said that you’ll not find one in the entire state :-(

Only last week, I was boasting to friends in India about the lovely weather in Seattle. sigh..i have to hide my face….hopefully they didn’t read this ;-)