My nightmare just happened.
Storm just knocked out our power. I have half my frozen milk at my house and half at my moms. 1 o'clock in the morning and I have to go get 2 or 3 coolers and ice so they don't thaw.
I knew pretty quickly the power probably was going to be out a while. We had storms roll through earlier yesterday that had hail and strong winds too. I saw on the news that over 5k of people still didn't have power from the first round of storms. It came back on about an hour ago, so I can't complain lol. ?
I figure if you would have just left them in the freezer without opening the doors it would have acted as a cooler. Apparently it's too late now but when our electricity goes out during a storm we make it a point not to open the freezer and it will stay cold. However, when we have power outages caused by storms they don't usually last too long. I don't know how it is where you are.
We're good!! 2 coolers is enough, they are in the bathtub incase they leak. The milk didn't thaw at all. It started to hail again when I was driving there which was so loud in the car, but I didn't see any dents so I think I'm good lol ?? Hopefully the powers back on by morning.
I put my shoes on to run out the door and it's facking hailing!! Is the a damn joke??
They're good for a long while if you don't open anything. As long as there are still ice crystals, they can be re-frozen