Hi Folks - apologies if this is dealt with elsewhere on the forum already, but cn you help a newbie out with an A/C q?

My gf and I both drive civics (she an aerodeck and I've just picked up a 2000 1.4 5 door) The AC seems to be broken on both - and I'm going to look into getting it fixed. But even without the A/c on it seems impossible to get the air blower to circulate any air around the car - is this normal? on previous cars I have owned it's been possible to get a real hurricane going in the car - but in the civic there is hardly a breeze even when it's on full.

Any thoughts?