On 8/30/2015 7:18 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
> Due to more wacky weather here, I have had to toss out most of my frozen
> and refrigerated food. Thankfully I had little in the way of meat. And
> most of my condiments were close to being used up. Yes, I know that
> they would probably have been okay but since I was having to toss so
> much else out, I got rid of the ones that were nearly used up.
> Thankfully I had extras for most of those things in my stockpile. Only
> had to get more mayo. I don't keep extra of that as we use very little
> of it.
>
> We were supposed to take my mom to lunch yesterday but never made it far
> from the house. Winds reached 65 MPH here and there were downed trees
> everywhere. 4 trees landed on a car in the area where we might have
> headed for lunch. Thankfully that person survived but 2 were killed in
> this storm. Still didn't get much in the way of rain here. And because
> of the drought, trees are falling more easily.
>
> I still have to check my car. It was making a weird noise but I did
> find a branch wrapped around one tire. Power was out here for 12 hours
> but some people that we know are still waiting for theirs to come back
> on. They said over 175,000 were without power. I do have thermometers
> in both the fridge and freezer and the temp did drop to 10 degrees below
> what it should be to keep the food safe. I had just stocked up on soft
> margarine. I did keep that. Seems fine. Also kept some of the frozen
> pops. I am sure they would be safe but the texture might be off.
>
> Now the problem is where to get fresh food! So many of the stores also
> lost their power. I did place an order with Amazon Fresh. I am pretty
> sure that stuff is safe. I also did not want to venture out again today
> as they haven't fully cleared all of the streets and we did have high
> winds again earlier. Will wait until later in the week to venture out
> and restock. Need to get to Costco, especially as I used up most of our
> batteries. *sigh* Always something.
>
> Also... If you do order from Amazon Fresh, double check your quantities
> before placing your order. I recently got three packages of sub rolls
> when I had only wanted one. I let that slide. Thought maybe I had made
> a mistake. But today I got double the amount of carrots and butter.
> They refunded me and said I could donate the extra. But I also got some
> packages of carrots, grapes, pretzels and cheese that I did not order.
> I suspect somebody is missing them from their order. I also suspect
> that they had far more orders than usual today.


Wishing you all the best under trying circumstances.

Who knew the weather would pitch THAT at you after a long hot spell!