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Lanx
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if your chest freezer is in the basement or in a cool place like your main floor, it should stay cool for a while and won't use much electricity (if you use a portable battery backup)
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Cybsled
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If you don't open it at all and it isn't hot where it is, freezers can usually be ok for a couple days from a frozen perspective.
Although if it fully dethaws, you may want to consider using it anyways - even if it stayed within refrigeration range, refreezing stuff afterwards will ruin a lot of it from a taste perspective.
Although if it fully dethaws, you may want to consider using it anyways - even if it stayed within refrigeration range, refreezing stuff afterwards will ruin a lot of it from a taste perspective.
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Yeah, I haven't opened it and hoping power will be back today, but there's not any updates from Entergy at all. Just looked at the map again and it looks pretty much the when I checked it last night before bed.
Unfortunately the weather is going to get hot again, plus it's humid as hell now with all the rain from yesterday. I've got to get watch out because pretty sure I had heat exhaustion last week, but we have limbs and shit everywhere that I've got to get cleaned up. Just didn't realize it was going to be as bad as it turned out.
Unfortunately the weather is going to get hot again, plus it's humid as hell now with all the rain from yesterday. I've got to get watch out because pretty sure I had heat exhaustion last week, but we have limbs and shit everywhere that I've got to get cleaned up. Just didn't realize it was going to be as bad as it turned out.
Aldarion
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I know a lot of the country has actual severe weather to deal with and this is not meant to poke fun at that.
But I'm pretty fucking tired of how modern propaganda has apparently ruined everyone's ability to enjoy normal summer weather. It hits 90 degrees around here and people are freaking out, like theyre genuinely upset by it. I'm like WTF this is called a nice summer day. Sweating a little bit won't kill you. Oh no better make sure you ""stay hydrated"" by drinking 8000 gallons of ice cold water out of a special expensive cup while sitting in the shade and talking about climate change.
Literally, when I was a kid, we called this "a nice day". Propagandized humanity sucks ass.
But I'm pretty fucking tired of how modern propaganda has apparently ruined everyone's ability to enjoy normal summer weather. It hits 90 degrees around here and people are freaking out, like theyre genuinely upset by it. I'm like WTF this is called a nice summer day. Sweating a little bit won't kill you. Oh no better make sure you ""stay hydrated"" by drinking 8000 gallons of ice cold water out of a special expensive cup while sitting in the shade and talking about climate change.
Literally, when I was a kid, we called this "a nice day". Propagandized humanity sucks ass.
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I've lived in the south all my life. Dealt with my share of hot weather, hurricanes, etc. gotten heat exhaustion threw times over the years from working and just spending time outside. I don't mind hot weather, as long as I've got some AC I can go and cool off in. The issue now is just not having power, and it sounds like the utility companies didn't stage in anticipation of repairs, which they normally do, or at least did for the last bad storm.
Power outage during the freeze a few years ago kind of showed their ineptitude, and it's kind of on display now. I think though that the storm ended up being a hell of a lot worse than anybody had anticipated, and it looks like it may be changed trajectory, and so if they were staging it was in the wrong area.
I just don't want to lose everything in my damn fridge and freezer. I make certain to buy steaks and meet when it's on sale because of Bidenomics, and if I end up having to cook a bunch of better throw it out I'm going to be pretty pissed. That's why I'm just not opening the thing. It's pretty full so I would imagine it still should at least be okay, and at least our house gets a lot of shade from me trees around it. It's not brutal inside right now, but the humidity and just the air outside not moving blows. I think the heat index is supposed to be 105 or 106 today, and couple that with humidity it's not tolerant like 90° dry heat.
Power outage during the freeze a few years ago kind of showed their ineptitude, and it's kind of on display now. I think though that the storm ended up being a hell of a lot worse than anybody had anticipated, and it looks like it may be changed trajectory, and so if they were staging it was in the wrong area.
I just don't want to lose everything in my damn fridge and freezer. I make certain to buy steaks and meet when it's on sale because of Bidenomics, and if I end up having to cook a bunch of better throw it out I'm going to be pretty pissed. That's why I'm just not opening the thing. It's pretty full so I would imagine it still should at least be okay, and at least our house gets a lot of shade from me trees around it. It's not brutal inside right now, but the humidity and just the air outside not moving blows. I think the heat index is supposed to be 105 or 106 today, and couple that with humidity it's not tolerant like 90° dry heat.
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Aldarions annoying need to virtue signal about how secure,tough whatever is gay and fake as fuck. Of course it's cause you don't want to lose 600 bucks in food.
And fuck him for making you feel like you have to explain
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Well, I think he's Canadian, so that might explain some things.
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OU Ariakas
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Well, gents. We just got power back after bearing the brunt of Beryl. The eye went directly over my house and our neighborhood. Power lost for around 36 hours. I need recommendations on a whole home genny. I am thinking commercial, not residential.
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Well, I think he's Canadian, so that might explain some things.
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Kharzette
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CaughtCross
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That's pretty cool, but there's no such thing as a real truck that's a hybrid or electric.
I do have an F-150 though.
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Aldarion
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You have a serious reading comprehension issue, friend.
My post was like a couple sentences long and not even controversial.
Maybe youre dehydrated.
I was genuinely confused how both you and Dr Retardo apparently took my post as some kind of argument. Looking back the only thing I can think is that its because my post followed one of his. Is that it? Are you seriously so fucking stupid you think every post in a forum is a response to the one that came right before it?
You must get confused a lot.
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Of the little I have read about them, people seems to like propane over diesel/gas. Something about higher upfront, but less maintenance/upkeep (maybe).
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Think the wife has heat exhaustion. Was throwing up all night and having trouble keeping liquids down. Was hotter inside than out last night when we went to bed.
Luckily power came back on around 1am, shut off again after 15mins, but came back at maybe 3 or 4. Thank God though. Weren't expecting it until possibly later this evening, so pretty thankful.
Think the freezer is fine, just have to pitch some stuff in the fridge, or feed it to the dogs, but not near as bad as I thought things might be.
Luckily power came back on around 1am, shut off again after 15mins, but came back at maybe 3 or 4. Thank God though. Weren't expecting it until possibly later this evening, so pretty thankful.
Think the freezer is fine, just have to pitch some stuff in the fridge, or feed it to the dogs, but not near as bad as I thought things might be.
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Lanx
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now it's time to dip into your rainy day generator fund
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Yeah, definitely going to shop for one. Inventory is gone though, so probably have to wait a bit, but gives me time to research.
When it was the hottest part yesterday, I fired up my truck and we charged lanterns, phones, etc, then wife sat in there reading for a couple hours with the dogs.
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rhinohelix
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We just got power back after Beryl. All I can say is FUCK CENTERPOINT Energy. As soon as we got a crew to show up, they had us back on in a few hours. Sad it took a fucking week to get a crew here. And I don't live in the sticks, I live in the city. I am the last person on my corp team to get power back, from the Woodlands to Katy to Fulshear to Pearland. During Ike we lost power for 4.5 days; Ike was a Cat 5 covered the entire Gulf that only dropped to a Cat 3 as it neared land (there is a shelf off upper Texas coast that makes the Gulf shallow and can limit hurricane strength at times) that dropped it to a Cat 3. You telling me that this mid fast moving Cat 1 did more damage than that Monster storm?
I understand what turns people into Socialists if you're aren't smart (or if you over intellectual) but I do understand wanting these overpaid incompetent fuckwits to burn. We finally got a genny set up with a portable AC on day 5 and got my first floor down to what I thought was livable; turned out to be 80. I can't imagine what I had been sweltering in previously.
CenterPoint Energy made 5 BILLION dollars in profit last year.
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