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Deerfarmer · #21 07-08-2011, 05:18 PM

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.

gonzalesdave · #22 07-08-2011, 08:25 PM

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

Hebert · #23 07-08-2011, 10:18 PM

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

Gerald · #24 07-08-2011, 11:15 PM

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.

iron man · #25 07-09-2011, 01:06 AM

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.

swamp snorkler · #26 07-09-2011, 05:00 AM

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!

booyagasha · #27 07-09-2011, 07:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Gerald

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.

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.

booyagasha · #28 07-09-2011, 07:11 AM

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Originally Posted by swamp snorkler

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!

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....

fishinpox · #29 07-09-2011, 08:44 PM

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!!!