By eggmarie - 10/07/2012 16:12 - United States - Lancaster

Today, my power finally came back on. I excitedly went and spent $100 to refill my fridge, only to come back home and discover the power is out again, and might not be back on for another three days. FML
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eggmarie 25

Going to answer major questions here: I'm a college kid. I live alone and have a small fridge. I shop at Walmart with coupons and that's how I managed to fill my fridge on $100. I have AEP and the power was on for a bit before it went back off (not enough time for the fridge to get cold again) so I assumed I was okay. Apparently it was a "test run" I borrowed coolers from family and got some ice. I just moved here a few weeks ago and haven't met many new people so I'm stuck at my house. Thank you for the well wishes and crossing my fingers that it's back sooner than anticipated!

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soccerluver315 14

Time to get a cooler full of ice and make a new fridge for yourself :P

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xXCherrryBombXx 6

all I can say is.. eat eat eat!

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totheforest84 4

A good cooler will last 5.... Get a cooler!

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QueenSaru 28

If you have a stand alone freezer, move what you can (meat etc, the expensive stuff) to there, our power was out for about four days once (thanks to somewhere in the US I think, funnily enough) and cook whatever else you can, keep the fridge closed as much as possible and you won't lose too much.

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Nnycr 4

Seriously, where in the US are you buying enough food to fill a fridge for $100?!

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thatKidzmOm 10

I've learned that once power returns, ALWAYS wait at least a couple hours to make sure it will not go out again. After all the hurricanes we have down here, you learn a few things.

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Taurus_ChicKa 36

I strongly recommend a generator. A few years ago, we had a terrible ice storm that knocked out our power for a week in bitter cold temperatures. My uncle brought his generator over and it helped drastically. We couldn't do as much, but we at least had the fridge, lights, and heat.

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mike3775 35

Exactly. I have three gas generators, one just for the refrigerator and freezer, and the other for smaller stuff like a small light in each bedroom and maybe a fan for the windows and the other for a TV, DVD/bluray player, cable box, and fans for the living room. I also keep 3 5 gallon cans of gasoline on standby for them(I swap out the fuel every 2 months by putting it in the riding lawn mower and golf cart and refilling the cans) The last time I lost power, I went without power for 4 days, and didn't lose any food. Sure it cost me a little bit for the generators, but I rather have them around just in case then lose the amount of food I would lose when power goes out.

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Brilliant66star 17

Then I guess it's an open-house all-you-can-eat buffet at 'eggmarie's place. Everybody bring a candle and one guest. FYL, but remember, it could always be worse.

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rampatmonkey 7

I know when we here in the northeast got hit with that freak blizzard this past halloween we claimed food loss on the power bill. look into it OP

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