My Single Mom Life

Mindy and her husband Chris came over and looked at the AC, and Chris thinks that it's water trapped inside and it needs to dry out.
The AC has been off since about 6pm or so, we have a couple of windows open, but I refuse to open more of them because I don't like sleeping (if I can even sleep at all tonight) with the windows open living on the ground floor.
Yup.
I'm totally paranoid that the one night I sleep with the windows open, that some jerk will come and try to break in, rob us, hurt us, all kinds of crazy paranoid thoughts about home invasions.

Anyway, Chris thinks that the rattling noise is the fan hitting the water that's built up inside, and it needs to totally dry out.
He also thinks that I'm going to need another new AC within the year, one that is actually meant for this size house, like the one that was in here when we moved in.
That AC lasted for the first 7 years we lived here, and from the look of it, it had probably been here since the house was built.
This duplex needs to have a much bigger AC unit, not sure of the correct size or BTUs, but the one that was here before, before it got struck by lightening, worked exceptionally well.
It was able to cool off the entire house, and it also had a heater in it for winter, which I only ever used twice because this is Florida, it doesn't really get cold enough in my opinion, to need to run the heat during the winter.
So he thinks we need to get one like that again, it will work much more efficiently, cool the whole house, not have to work so hard to cool the house off.
This AC does do a good job of cooling most of the house off, but it's a smaller AC than the right sized one, so it's always working hard to keep the house cool.
The condensation has built up in it big time, and so he thinks that is the cause of the rattling noise.
The fan hitting all of the built up water.

I tried to turn it on a few minutes ago, and the rattling started right back up.
Hopefully it will be all dried out by tomorrow morning, er, this morning, in case the weather forecast is wrong, and instead of being 67 degrees, it goes up to 77 or 87 degrees.
It would be totally freaking hot in here, like sweltering hot.
No AC in this house is like being in a sauna.
It's supposed to be between 47 and 54 degrees overnight tonight, so that's not too bad to try and sleep without it.