We just discovered that the refrigerator has apparently been dead long enough that most of the freezer has already thawed… though the lights are still on.
Bowdu is offering to assist by gorging on all the meat I just happened to have stocked up on last month…
EDIT: A phone call and $200 later, crisis averted… I still have a lot of cooking to do tonight though!
EDIT AGAIN: Whups… the freezer side wasn’t actually fixed, and everything continued to thaw…
Oh no! Can you cram anything into your regular freezer to save it? Ask a friend to help you refreeze?
Heh, the “icebox” I referred to is our one and only regular freezer. I was more concerned about the stuff on that side than the refrigerated side, which is slightly less stocked at the moment.
Knocking on the neighbor’s door for help isn’t such a bad idea. I’m so loathe to bother others that I wouldn’t have thought of this myself, even if this hadn’t happened late last evening… =)
We have a second freezer, a small 8.8 cu chest freezer crammed into our laundry room. Did, rather, before the flood, but will have again! There is also a second chest freezer here in the garage of the house where we are staying. I highly recommend it if you have the room to stuff one in somewhere, especially when you are stocking up on pet food like we do.
We lost almost everything in both freezers due to hurricane Sandy, other than a few items that managed to keep each other frozen for a couple of days that we salvaged…A turkey, a steak and a couple containers of the homemade raw for the dogs. A lot of money, poof. A lot of everything…sigh. But we’ll recover!
Oh, no! I have a phobia about this happening, so I’ve been trying to scale back on how much I keep. It’s hard though–“I’m at the store, and this is on sale, and he’ll eat it one day…”
Sure wish I had an extra freezer now!
We have an chest freezer in the garage, and even an extra fridge in the garage, though that is there simply because we got a newer one and had to put the old one somewhere. But with 4 dogs, we couldn’t make it without the chest freezer. It is a worry of mine that something like this will happen–so sorry it did to you!
And…even though they are necessary, I hate spending money on such unfun things as freezers or appliance repair. So it’s a double ugh–stuff unfrozen, and having to spend money repairs or a new one.
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