“After 36-48 hours, depending on where you live and time of year, the smell from rotting food from peoples freezers starts to become overwhelming, and that doesn’t even take into consideration the flies.”
In hurricane country, we first eat what’s in the fridge, then eat food from the freezer. Some of us pare down the frozen food before hurricane season gets here so there won’t be a huge amount of frozen food in there.
Planning for an emergency works.
I’ve lived in hurricane country my entire life, been going through hurricanes for over 57 years.
If people don’t have a way to cook the food it ends up by the curb.
BTW, what do you do with the deer, pig, fish, frozen veggies from your garden, and frozen leftovers in your freezer if you don’t have any kind of notice the power is going to be off for a month because it’s not hurricane season?
Just a thought - but something I have yet to see mentioned in all of the doomsday scenarios in these posts: Let’s say the carp hits the fan at high noon, or 2:00 pm, middle of the week. Kids are in school, mom/pop at work ~10, 20, 30 or more miles away. Massive EMP strike would damage all electronics in late model cars, traffic signals, mass transit, etc. You’ll be lucky if you get home and round up your family within a week’s time. And let’s not forget aircraft caught in mid-air. It will happen SUDDENLY - no warning, most likely at the most inconvenient moment; not when everyone’s sitting cozy around the dinner table.