Subject: Re: OT: Idea if you are leaving home
Something which worked well during an extended blackout after hurrican Sandy a number of years ago was fill in spare space in my refrigerator's freezer with plastic mineral water bottles.

My only caution to you is to be careful not to block the air vents (upper *and* lower) which circulate the freezing air. Mrs. Goofy managed to do that a couple years ago with her frozen Yasso boxes, and it took a bit to figure out why the back of the freezer felt hot while the inside of the freezer didn’t feel, well, freezing. The machine kept running, obviously, because the thermostat kept saying “not cold enough” while the motor kept saying “I’m trying as hard as I can.”