Reply #61: Wait a minute, here... [View All]

[Occulus]

The ice storm knocked out power for some people for weeks. That means the ice stayed for a long time, which means it was below freezing the whole time. I live in SW MI, by the way, and clearly remember our own legendary ice storm, which did much the same thing to us back in the mid '80s.

But the thing is, if the food was frozen, but there was no electricity, and the freezer was inside, thus rising in temperature and the ambient heat conducted through the walls of the freezer...

...why didn't they just put their food outside, where it would stay frozen, or in an unheated garage or shed?

Animals? ... or were people just not thinking too terribly hard?

(I'm not trying to be a dick- that's just the first and most obvious solution that came to me for losing one's food if the weather is cold enough to cause an ice sotrm. Did the temperature jack up and down so much that that solution wasn't feasible? What am I missing, here?)