Sick to My Stomach!!!!!!!
 

Walked in my shed at 5:00 this morning and noticed a funny odor. Looked around and noticed my freezer door had a 2 inch crack in it. It had been like that since Wed. afternoon. I had to throw away 50 lbs of shrimp, 6 speckeled belly geese, a pack of teal, 15 lbs of ground beef, some fresh deer sausage, and some smoked deer sausage. It totaled almost a 94 quart ice chest of meat I threw away!! Luckily I was able to salvage a 48 quart ice chest of meat that was still cold enough (but defrosted). So I had to stay home today and I'm cooking a huge redfish courtboullion (spelling), a potato hash, a sausage gravy, frying an butt load of fish, a sausage and red gravy, and a chilli so that I can freeze it again.

At least I won't have to cook for a few weeks after eating on all of this. Makes me wanna start drinking now i'm so ticked off!! Just bought a latch to make sure the freezer closes all the way every time.

AND TO TOP IT OFF IT WAS MY FAULT!!:pissed:

mayun dats a lot of lost meat and a lot of cookin.... save me a plate lunch

May that bleauxs!!!!
Have had that happen with a freezer FULL deer meat, lucky for me it was all vacuum sealed, bags were blown up like balloons!

That's crap man!!

Thats a terrible situation. Hate to see that kinda meat go to waste.

I can best describe that feeling as "being kicked in da' nutz"! Sorry about your misfortune buddy, think of the good weekend you will have with all the meals cooked!!!!

That sucks. Same thing happened to my paw-n-law twice in 2 months, lost it all both times. Dog unplugged it the first and wind blew it open the 2nd. Glad you could still cook some.

I can't even imagine this happening twice!

One of my buddy's had to rub it in and said to think of all the money it costs me fishing and hunting to go catch and kill everything.

Dat sucks

Maybe I can get BD to donate some of his 12,000 lbs of tripple tail meat to restock my freezer?!?!?;)

man that hurts!! Just went check my freezer door

just a friendly tip...if your freezer has a lock use it. I keep the key on top and it only takes an extra second to lock/unlock.

That happened to me once about 100 pounds of shrimp, fish, ducks, geese, doves, bald eagle, spotted owl you name it i had it. Jk about the eagle and owl, but sorry to hear that man just gives you an excuse to go get more.

wish I had a lock. went buy a latch to put on it now so that I know for sure it is closed when i leave my shed

man that sucks!!!!!

I'm glad you cleared that up. :rolleyes:

What time should we all b there? I'm hungry already!!

My 10yo did the same hing a montha ago....bye bye snapper and tuna!!!

Sound like rita 6 yrs ago but we ate shrimp one night, sausage samichez the next and steaks for 2 weeks...that sucks sorry bro.

A while back I was getting ice out of the freezer to go fishing. To find the ice I took out a bag of vension and put it beside the freezer.

Yep.....found it the next day.

5 days after Rita [and no elect.] I came home. I had enough ice in the freezer that almost everything was still good......but had to be eaten. Took 2 big ice chest back to Lafayette to feed the other people staying there. I had brought one ice chest of stuff when we left.

That does suck for sure.

My dad called to tell me that while I was working in his shop and tripped the breaker (I told him on my way out) he should have went and reset it because his freezer was on the same circuit. He lost some redfish and bass. Not nearly as much as you, but it still sucks.

I had the same thing happen at few years back. I lost 3 deer, and a bunch of fish. I got rid of the upright and replaced it with a chest type freezer. We had one at the camp also. We took out some deer meat to cook and it stunk BAD. It was still frozen. All we could think is that the electricity must have went out long enough for the freezer to thaw out. From that day on we put a plate on top of the food with a piece of ice on it. It the ice was flat we know we had a problem. Didn't want to take a chance.

That is a good idea. My father in law freezes a cup of water and then turns it upside down.

try coming back home after being gone 2 months to find your frig in the house had went out.....i had some bait(squid,fish heads and shrimp) and tons of fillets and meats........there was maggots DRIPPING onto my kitchen floor in big piles!!!....the smell hit me as soon as I opened the door :puke:

I helped my daughter move out of of a dorm room in New Orleans 6 weeks after Katrina.

They had signs posted to please "Do Not open" the refridgerators. The water had been 3.5 feet deep on the ground floor. She said that she saw a picture on the news of her old car.....just the roof was above the water. She pushed the car to the street so the city would pick it up.

I figured I got about 7 mpg going up to Baton Rouge pulling this trailer. Took 3 of us 5 hours to pack up and load everything..... and it was a hot day. Took a tour of New Orleans on the way out....what a sight. Trash piled up along almost every street.

We usually (I use that term loosely) lock our freezer when we close it. We lost probably 100-150 gallon ziplocks full of fish and other game during Gustave in which we were without power for close to 2 weeks. :puke:

You know whats worst than that?

My wife works at a local hospital and they have a few big freezers where they were allowing employes to to bring things for a hurricane. I was with my parents and 2 young kids on our way to Shreveport so my wife packed the freezer. She took chicken breast, ground meat, catfish and some lasagna.......left sac aux lait and bass 3 packs of ducks and 2 packs of rabbit behind........that was the first time in my life i ever told her she was stupid and she agreed!

katrina was nutts, i was in college living in baton rouge at the time. As a matter of fact, we had a hurricane pool party the night before landfall, and alot of people had their families staying at their dorms/apartments. All we , students , had was beer and other party favors and the evacuee's only had meats from their freezers...deer sausauges, steaks, ribs, backstraps, and so on. So in a time of crisis, we busted out the beeyas and they busted out the meats and that was probably one of the funnest college "chaperoned" parties i ever been to..lol

then the next few weeks were spent helping clean up families and friend's properties from hurricane damage.

THAT was the only time in my life that i can think of that almost all gas stations were bone dry.

lulz..i read somewheres in nolas paper that said they were trying to sell/reuse some of the refer trucks they used as makeshift morgues....:work::work::work:

dude i feel for ya ...happened to me less than a month ago, i lost prolly 2 120 qt ice chest of fish , shrimp, gumbo, shrimp/corn stew , beef, chickens all sorts of stuff... i was pissed!!!

I'll hook you up podnuh. Just tell me when you come back to da lake.