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My Powah has been restored!!!! *super villain laugh*
Since I don't get back into Maryland until 7 p.m., and went out and treated my cranky-all-day-self to a yummy empanada and enchilada, got a big pack of D batteries, new pillows, and bananas, I didn't get home until 10:30 p.m. I then returned to a wondrously lit (probably in both senses of the word) street. There was much rejoicing. Yay air conditioner and lights and hot water!!!!
When I opened the freezer some stuff was frozen and about a third of the ice cubes were still formed and loose and not melted into the rest of the ice block, so it's left me wondering if any of my frozen foods are salvageable. I called Pepco, which didn't call me when power was restored like they were supposed to, in order to find out when power was restored, since all my clocks were showing different times. The guy was clueless on that info, but upon my being insistent, eventually found it was restored at 3 p.m. If I can trust that, then power's been on for almost 8 hours, so things could have refrozen in that time. Still, there are those unmelted ice cubes. So I'm going to look around some web sites to find out which, if any, things are salvageable. Probably not the $20 bag of shrimp I got free for bringing a prescription into the grocery store.
Project Clean Out the Fridge will have to wait until tomorrow, as there is a bed in an air conditioned room waiting for me and the kitties--yippeeee!!!!
Since I don't get back into Maryland until 7 p.m., and went out and treated my cranky-all-day-self to a yummy empanada and enchilada, got a big pack of D batteries, new pillows, and bananas, I didn't get home until 10:30 p.m. I then returned to a wondrously lit (probably in both senses of the word) street. There was much rejoicing. Yay air conditioner and lights and hot water!!!!
When I opened the freezer some stuff was frozen and about a third of the ice cubes were still formed and loose and not melted into the rest of the ice block, so it's left me wondering if any of my frozen foods are salvageable. I called Pepco, which didn't call me when power was restored like they were supposed to, in order to find out when power was restored, since all my clocks were showing different times. The guy was clueless on that info, but upon my being insistent, eventually found it was restored at 3 p.m. If I can trust that, then power's been on for almost 8 hours, so things could have refrozen in that time. Still, there are those unmelted ice cubes. So I'm going to look around some web sites to find out which, if any, things are salvageable. Probably not the $20 bag of shrimp I got free for bringing a prescription into the grocery store.
Project Clean Out the Fridge will have to wait until tomorrow, as there is a bed in an air conditioned room waiting for me and the kitties--yippeeee!!!!
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Here's the USDA's recommendations on power out for freezers:
http://www.fsis.usda.gov/factsheets/focus_on_freezing/index.asp#16
A couple of years ago my fridge died, and it took a couple of days to get a new one installed. I had to throw out the raw meat in the freezer despite bags of ice, but everything else was okay.
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I don't think I'd take any chances on any kind of meat. Veggies may be a little mushy, but I think refreezing doesn't hurt them, as long as they're cooked well.