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We lost our power for three days once. Large chest freezer. Nothing thawed out, just starting to on the outside of the packages the third day. Trick is to keep freezer full and any extra space fill with two or three liter soda bottles and gallon milk jugs full of water. They come in handy to keep the fridge or a cooler cold in a power outage also. And when they thaw you've got clean drinking water. I'd dare to say we could be out of power for a week before our freezer got above refrigerator temp. We do have a small backup generator now just in case. Three days without power was like camping in the comfort of your own home.
I'll admit, I'm a bit of a 'prepper'. I'd not worry about a 1-week outage...but if the sheit hit the fan, a 1-year outage could create a bit of discomfort for all concerned.
