You cant store your meat in that
Chances are you will never get it back.
Chances are you will never get it back.
Are you making any plans for the Snow?
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Be prepared if you have a freezer full of stuff - power cuts last year ruined a lot of (expensive) meat I had in mine. We had 9 hours without electricity just recently and plan B was to put all the food from the freezer in a sealed box out in the snow.
When we lived in the Bahamas some years ago, power cuts were very common. So too were freezer parties.
When a power cut threatened to be long enough to ruin the contents of a freezer, the barbecues were lit and all the neighbours invited to bring a bottle eat the food. A claim for the "ruined" food was then made on the insurance.
When a power cut threatened to be long enough to ruin the contents of a freezer, the barbecues were lit and all the neighbours invited to bring a bottle eat the food. A claim for the "ruined" food was then made on the insurance.
Buy a freezer. It's more efficient when it's full. That includes bin bags of clothing/pillows/pink fiberglas insulation.
We can have as many as 60 power failures in a day. Once a week is very common. Like you can't believe.
It scares off business investment.
I can't get a roast to thaw in a day, upstairs in the kitchen. In the freezer -20C with the lid shut?
We had a major wild fire south of us some years ago. It burnt down a long stretch of our power line.
The village council rented freezer units in less than 2 hours. They went door-to-door.
Told everybody to box and label all frozen food and bring it to the reefers.
That lasted more than a month wit 100% success.
If you have to go away, if there's any chance of a power failure that could melt your freezer,
here's what you do now, not later =
Freeze maybe 1" water in a plastic cup in the freezer. Then, put a coin on the ice.
You will know instantly if it melted and refroze.
We can have as many as 60 power failures in a day. Once a week is very common. Like you can't believe.
It scares off business investment.
I can't get a roast to thaw in a day, upstairs in the kitchen. In the freezer -20C with the lid shut?
We had a major wild fire south of us some years ago. It burnt down a long stretch of our power line.
The village council rented freezer units in less than 2 hours. They went door-to-door.
Told everybody to box and label all frozen food and bring it to the reefers.
That lasted more than a month wit 100% success.
If you have to go away, if there's any chance of a power failure that could melt your freezer,
here's what you do now, not later =
Freeze maybe 1" water in a plastic cup in the freezer. Then, put a coin on the ice.
You will know instantly if it melted and refroze.
Oh, he'd definitely get it back
Magically transformed it is.
It was one of those fated moments. She was the last of the litter and the owners were tired after helping clear up after them. There were 5 children in the house, each of which had a favourite that would be sneaked off to a bedroom to play, and go about their "business". I had to take her home really, she's an amazing character and a good mate to our very elderly Jack Russell who is almost deaf and blind and gets lost on walks. Mimi is trained to find her and bring her back which she does well.
I'll not bother with a pic of the fridge.
How are you people doing with "at-home" bushcraft? Saw the snow in last night's TV news.
That is butt-ugly like the blizzards here.
That is butt-ugly like the blizzards here.
The snowplough kindly came up our 1 in 4 drive today so we should be able to get out tomorrow. I may still have to put the chains on as it's left a compacted 2 inches of snow that will turn to ice tonight
Just fine! it was just a few days, I found it kind of fun and its good weather too test yourself with.
It's all away here too. It's rained all day long instead.
I know the days are stretching out, but I'm really longing for the ones when the back door is opened as soon as I'm up and it stays open all day long. The garden just becomes the big room
M
I know the days are stretching out, but I'm really longing for the ones when the back door is opened as soon as I'm up and it stays open all day long. The garden just becomes the big room
M
Yep, here too. just the deep drifts and a bit of slush left. The ground all around is like a wet sponge.
Nice truck though!
It's all away here too. It's rained all day long instead.
I know the days are stretching out, but I'm really longing for the ones when the back door is opened as soon as I'm up and it stays open all day long. The garden just becomes the big room
M
I know what you mean; we always say our biggest room is outside!
But I'm also trying not to plan my life away; I can't believe we're 1/6th the way through the year already! I just need it to be dryer so I can get on; I don't mind cold. With the ground as wet as it is I just can't get most of the jobs started
