Thanks. They've shut everything down today. People have forgotten how to drive. The local PD's FB page is full of accidents from people not stopping at intersections because they've turned off all the power. It's a mess. Almost glad I'm at work.
We kept power but my friend who was in Maine did not and I have a key to his house as he loaded his wife's car in the garage in their valuables just as a precaution before they left on the Friday before the Saturday power loss.
He had a bunch of frozen salmon he caught and was worried about it as was I.
Believe it or not it survived in the freezer as it was at the very bottom, for 96 hours but other stuff higher in the freezers, (the fucker had two for me to tend), did not.
Yesterday AM we moved all the surviving frozen food to my friend's large freezer he had kept dry ice in as it wouldn't have lasted much longer.
Key is not to open the freezer and, ideally, have the most valuable stuff at the bottom of the freezer no matter the design, (they had a stupid side by side and a more rational top freezer downstairs).
The fridges were no problem as I made 2 large blocks of ice in succession, (I had started before the shutoff as I was afraid I'd lose power), and 1 block would last 2 days in a stainless steel hotel pan).
The 25 percent that was not frozen in the fridge was cold enough to use so we handed it out and people cooked it right away.
Anyone want some freaking bacon?
That OCD wife of his had 8 packages of bacon in the freezer.
But, in the pantry, the lunatic has over 20 boxes of Rice A Roni and they are both over 60 and my friend Jim has high blood pressure.
I think she's trying to kill him. :laughing
