"Janet B" > wrote in message
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> On Sun, 30 Aug 2015 18:18:58 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
>
>>Due to more wacky weather here, I have had to toss out most of my frozen
>>and
>>refrigerated food.
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> For 12 hours, I wouldn't have tossed anything. Twelve hours would
> mean I was getting antsy about the ice cream in the freezer. Of
> course, we wouldn't open the fridge or freezer doors at all. At 12
> hours I might find a little condensation forming on stuff but
> everything is still solid. Cleaning and tossing the contents of my
> fridge/freezer combination could mean an expense of $500 or so. I
> know that for sure from when we had a fire in our fridge and had to
> submit a claim to the insurance company. I made a list of everything
> in the fridge/freezer and went to the store and priced everything.
> Janet US

Maybe you wouldn't have but my own power company told me to do that. I
didn't have $500 worth of stuff. There was the leftover pot roast, a pound
of ground beef, the leftover meatloaf, sausages, a small amount of bacon, 4
hamburger patties and some lunch meat. That was it for the meat.