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We tend to take rather long trips. One is impending which will allow us to miss at least some of this summer's hottest weather.

While our power is generally very rubust, this is also the season with the highest probability of electrical brownout and blackout issues.

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. This keep our refrigerator cold for about a week and hopfully add enough thermal inertial to bridge a power problem of reasonable length.

It may be helpful that my freezer section is above the refrigeerator which I'm guessing aid by convection when the internal fans no longer function.

Jeff

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.”

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