In article >,
"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.

no obvious source of replacement food, food still good even with the
slightly lower temp and you threw food away. It's amazing that people
like you can survive any natural disaster