To What Great Lengths have you gone to

[Cook Chatty Cathy]

TO PROTECT YOUR FOOD?

We had a hurricane once that took out the electricity for days on end, rather than loose all our food in the Deep Freeze we loaded it up on the back of our pick-up truck and took it to my cousins house in a state over so we could plug it in and save all our meat and veggies!


Ever went out at 3 am in the morning to pick your garden veggies? I did that just last night. We had some torrential down pours and our yard floods out by the creek where the garden resides. So I waited until I heard the rain let up and I ran out and got all the veggies I could manage to get that were old enough to pick just in case the garden got washed away It was fun and I got lucky as we have a flood light on a motion detector that is on our chicken coup and it lit up the garden very well, well enough so I could pick veggies just using a flash light! I think the neighbors were asleep, but the chickens woke up and were so happy, there were a million crickets and they had an early moring snack of fresh crickets! One hen got so excited she just layed an egg right on the ground and I had myself a good laugh. The crickets must come at night to clean up the feed the chickens miss during the day, there were godzillions of them and it being damp and all they were everywhere Needless to say the chickens were not as hungry this morning at feed time as they usually are

Oh and another time a hurricane hit and I ran the freezer on high 2 days before it hit, then the day it struck us I taped the door of the freezer with duct tape. You know we lost electric 3 days and on the 4th day when it came on and I opened the freezer door my ice cream was just beginning to get softened up and I was so happy that everything was still frozen I ate all the ice cream up in celebration I LOVE ICE CREAM!!!!

[jglass]

I only have the little freezer over my fridge. I have lost electric due to storms a couple of times here but where we live on the same street as the police station, ambulance and courthouse they always get it back on pretty fast. There hasnt been a tornado or really bad weather here in years. Snow and ice storms in the winter can knock out power but our last few winters have been very mild.
When I lived at home we lost electric for a whole day once. We had alot of stuff in the freezer AND Dad was on oxygen. Without electric his oxygen machine didnt work. Luckily the power company made us a priority but it still took 24 hours.
Did I tell you guys that my FIL has lost his phone service three times in the past two weeks thanks to copper thieves cutting the lines above his house? It knocks out everyone on that road for miles.

[Cook Chatty Cathy]

Copper thieves, what next!!!!????!!!! Good Lordy Mercy what in the heck, folks up there must be freaking dumber than DUMB!!!

[jfain]

Every year I usually start in October looking at the weather forecast to see when the first frost will be so I can bring all my veggies in before that. I also bring all my herbs in.

We have had several power outages but normally the food will stay frozen for a day or so. One time it was out for longer so we put all the meat in coolers and took it to our friends house. They have a chest freezer and their power was fine.

[jglass]

Originally Posted by Cook Chatty Cathy

Copper thieves, what next!!!!????!!!! Good Lordy Mercy what in the heck, folks up there must be freaking dumber than DUMB!!!

lol Not all of us.

They even have people crawling under cars and cutting off parts to sell.
People who are hooked on drugs or just worthless wastes of space will do anything for easy money.

[jfain]

I just found out recently that there is a major heroin problem in central Ohio (where I live). I had no idea.

[jglass]

I was delighted when a cop moved in the apartment around the corner from us.

[mrsjimmyp]

LOL..Cathy I have never gone to any great length to save food. Once was without power 3 days but my freezer was empty at the time.

Copper theives in Ms have been doing damage for a while now.

[Cook Chatty Cathy]

Originally Posted by mrsjimmyp

once was without power 3 days but my freezer was empty at the time.

i guess that was sad news and good news all the the same time,

sad it was empty (no goodies to fill it up)

glad it was empty & nothing to spoil!!!

Gosh francie, i was running out to the garden on those early in the spring nights when we had frost in the forecast and covering my little plants up to protect them, and then uncovering in the morning! The only thing i could not do anything about was the stinking flood!

[Cook Chatty Cathy]

Oh yeah I forgot to mention all the Canning & freezing that we do to save up all the extra food we have in our gardens!

Why heck the Seal-A-Meal and Food Saver companies would be out of business if folks weren't trying to save their precious food supply!