Not ours but our family.
Central Ohio has been without electric since Monday night between storms, tornados and the heat wave with feel like temps 105 to 115. It has been horrible for those going through this. Some still don't have electric and it's a maybe for tomorrow. A lot of nursing homes, assistant living and hospital are on emergency power and can't open windows for what little breeze there is.
Hubby's brother and sister lost everything in their freezers and refrigerators. I can tell you that is a financial hit big time for his sister who is already on a strict budget on low income. His parents are on generator on their propane so the frig and freezer are okay but they can't run their AC on it. They were thankful they grew up without AC and knew what to do to keep the house cool. Gave advice to several of their grandkids. ( Our kids didn't grow up with AC).
Most home insurance policies will not cover much of lost food unless by fire. Some won't then. SO you might want to check your policies.
Hubby's parents thought we were stupid for preparing for the grid to go down... they don't now. BUT I did point out to Hubby I needed to be canning more of our meat. I have froze snow peas, peas and strawberries though the majority of the berries are in pie filling and jam. I am now dehydrating the last of them. I should have the last in the dehydrator today.
It made us stop and think if we were preparing enough to be off grid.
This is Charlotte at 7 A.M. as I was putting laundry out and Hubby was making sure E's two cows' water barrel was full.
One of the ways I am keeping the house cooler so the A.C. doesn't run as much.
side purpose is to dry the laundry. ;)
Tonight is salad with what ever we can use without me turning on the stove so no boiled eggs or pasta.
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I was always a little puzzled at your gathering of things for a grid-down situation, but now I get it. You live in the midwest with weather conditions that can lead to this. I live in So Cal and we only have the very occasional power stoppage for a very short time. I hope you are able to help your sister-in-law.
ReplyDeleteWe started thinking about it when Texas grid went down for over 2 wks and still many went longer than that. There was over 200 deaths (pushing over 700 when they started thinking of by products of the grid being down) They really didn't expect to ever have something like this. The reason Ohio went down... 3 small tornados (two EF 0 s and one EF 1)took out main transmission lines and it rolled down the line.
DeleteNo matter how long the grid goes down, a generator is just a necessity. I am frantic because we don't have one. I had one, but gone with the house.
ReplyDeleteI would never be able to can all the meat we have in both freezers. I don't have the energy. There is other stuff like butter, too.
We lost power for about 13 hours and lost nothing. We need another way to at least heat stuff, but he is against a generator or anything to cook on.
We do have plenty of food that does not require cooking.