Couple of “must listen to” interviews with Steven Harris here:
Dealing with large scale blackout.
Keeping the stuff in your freezer & fridge cold.
Alternative power supplies (your car).
One advantage to northern living is the natural refrigeration we get. I’ve kept meat in big rubbermaid totes in the garage for better than a month with no real thaw.
My neighbor was talking about the insulation properties of straw and now we’re thinking about stacking straw bales with frozen stuff just to see how much we can extend the natural refrigeration.
Kind of appropriate considering the fact that my house sits on the site of an old icehouse that used straw for insulation.