You did right to listen to your instincts. Wish to heck I’d bought a chest freezer at the beginning, but workflow & income weren’t sufficient at that time to allow me to splurge.
Then again, with the recent ice storm & resulting mass power outages in OK (some lasting 1-2 weeks), I would’ve lost all that food and meat anyhow, since I don’t have a generator to hook a freezer up to. Wish I could afford both, just in case of another outage in the future.
Ice storms in OK already? We haven’t even had our first real freeze yet here in MO. First frost date was Oct 15th. It was 72 degrees yesterday. In the current 7 day forecast, one low of 32 but that’s not really a freeze. Highs are 48-55. Been weird but I’m not complaining. Not great for the deer hunters. This weekend is the last of firearm season. Thanksgiving Day will be a high of 57.
We lived off grid for 5 years so I don’t do without a gennie. Lost power for a few hours here yesterday due to it being real windy but it wasn’t long enough to fire up the generator. Next thing I’m looking at is a manual transfer switch so I don’t have to run extension cords everywhere when we do have to run the gennie. Just start the gennie and flip a switch. It’s not a stand by generator, just a portable. Champion brand are decent and cheap. We’ve got a few solar penels too but need a new charge controller and batteries which will run about $600.00. Already have 12vdc LED lighting and an inverter to give us 120vac to run all the little stuff, modem, laptops, cordless phone, tv etc.
Next year for all the above.