Handy tip for hurricane/electrical outages

[underpants]

[Phoenix61]

1. Freeze a bowl of water. Place a coin on top of the ice.

You can approximate how long the power has been off based on where the coin is when you return home.

[Xoan]

2. Very handy? LOL

[liberal N proud]

3. Is that a hand in a meat package?

[underpants]

4. Whaaat?!

Gee I didn’t even notice

[trof]

11. I'm gonna say sausages?

[Chainfire]

5. We freeze gallons of water before the storm hits.

Fill the bathtubs, good for washing and flushing. When the power goes, so does my water.

[Mr.Bill]

6. I always have about a dozen frozen gallons

of water in my spare freezer. Something to remember is to drain a little water out of the bottle before freezing with the cap off. They have many uses. They make the freezer cheaper to run by occupying space, they of course can be used for drinking or flushing, they are good to have on hand if there is a water quality problem, and when the power is off I have a small generator but it won't run my AC. I take two or three frozen jugs and set them in front of a fan (which my generator can run) and it cools a room pretty well on a hot day. We do live in a small mobile home so it's enough for us.

[underpants]

9. -

Look at the bottom right hand side of the picture.

[Mr.Bill]

10. I didn't scroll down

so I didn't see it. Funny.

[redstatebluegirl]

7. We do this.

We have a lot of outages here, either ice storms or wind. The last time it kept the freezer good for 48 hours.

[underpants]

8. .

Look at the bottom of the photo. On the right hand side.

[Niagara]

12. Hands-Down the best hurricane tip that I've read today.