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Julie Bove[_2_]

"Janet" > wrote in message
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> In article >, says...
>>
>> On 31/08/2015 8:30 AM, Janet B wrote:
>> > On Sun, 30 Aug 2015 18:18:58 -0700, "Julie Bove"
>> > > wrote:
>> >
>> >> Due to more wacky weather here, I have had to toss out most of my
>> >> frozen and
>> >> refrigerated food.
>> > snip
>> > For 12 hours, I wouldn't have tossed anything. Twelve hours would
>> > mean I was getting antsy about the ice cream in the freezer. Of
>> > course, we wouldn't open the fridge or freezer doors at all. At 12
>> > hours I might find a little condensation forming on stuff but
>> > everything is still solid. Cleaning and tossing the contents of my
>> > fridge/freezer combination could mean an expense of $500 or so. I
>> > know that for sure from when we had a fire in our fridge and had to
>> > submit a claim to the insurance company. I made a list of everything
>> > in the fridge/freezer and went to the store and priced everything.
>> > Janet US
>> >
>> My friends north of Vancouver were without power for a day and a half
>> and had no problems with their frozen food.
>> They were very pleased with the fact that they had chosen a gas cooktop
>> for their kitchen.
>
> In March 2013 our entire island lost its power supply from the
> mainland in a freak snow/ice storm. For three days the unheated
> interior temperature of the house was around 50 F, and I didn't open the
> freezer *at all* until the power came back on at the end of the third
> day. When it did I was amazed to find everything was still rock solid
> cold and hard. We didn't lose anything from the freezer. Hats off to
> modern freezer insulation.

Well that wasn't the case here. For part of the day it was around 80 in the
house and the fridge and freezer were not full.