Preparing for a hurricane?

[bcr229]

The other thing that I've done is pack my chest freezer with gallon jugs of water. The only thing in there at the moment is rats, but I don't wan them defrosting either. The ice will keep them cool for a few days and it's potable water if the neighborhood goes to hell in a hand basket. I sound like some kind of loony prepper reading this back to myself....sigh.

Naw, it's a good idea. In fact the less airspace you have in the freezer the more efficiently it runs so you may want to leave the water jugs in there all the time to save on electricity.

You can also turn the t-stat on it down to the lowest setting, and do the same for any other refrigerator/freezer in the house. The colder it is to start out, the longer it will take food to thaw.