# Damnation, a whole fridge and freezer of food I gotta toss.

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**Created:** [June 20, 2010, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damnation-a-whole-fridge-and-freezer-of-food-i-gotta-toss/543822 "2010-06-20T00:07:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2010, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damnation-a-whole-fridge-and-freezer-of-food-i-gotta-toss/543822/21 "2010-06-22T03:02:53Z")

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> [@YogSosoth](#):
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> Why would girl scout cookies be lost?

Smell permeated everything. It was gross. I suppose the plastic lining on the cookies may have kept the cookies intact, but no one wanted to eat anything that came out of that freezer. We didn’t notice it had been unplugged for several weeks.

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**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2010, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damnation-a-whole-fridge-and-freezer-of-food-i-gotta-toss/543822/22 "2010-06-22T03:26:52Z")

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Power outages suck.

We had one in Denver a couple of weeks ago. We were out for nine hours. When it came back on, the refrigerator was at 50 degrees and the freezer was at 36 (usually fridge 37, freezer 0), so the food was pretty much okay.

But despite dumping in a half gallon or so of fresh water every hour or so, I lost a few of my tropical fish.☹ One diamond tetra and two ghost glass catfish, and I’d had those catfish for several years.

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**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2010, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damnation-a-whole-fridge-and-freezer-of-food-i-gotta-toss/543822/23 "2010-06-22T06:08:18Z")

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> [@GameHat](#):
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> Yep, mother nature gave Chicagoland the finger yesterday. Not one, but two separate big thunderstorms. For me the power went out about 3 PM Friday and wasn’t back on until 2 PM today, Saturday.
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> I kept my fridge and freezer closed the entire outage with the hope that the food could be salvaged (I really expected the power back on yesterday evening, then yesterday night, then early Saturday, then morning Saturday, then noon Saturday.)
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> But alas, I finally got the power back, let the fridge/freezer run about an hour, then cautiously opened the door.
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> Well, it stinks. Both fridge and freezer, that is.
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> Oh well. Not the worst thing ever. I needed an excuse to clean them out and scrub them down anyways.
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> But tossing $50 worth of food - that sucks.

$50 worth of food - that’s like one or two plastibags, right?

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