[Amelia]

Don't waste your gasoline.

If it's headed this way, my gasoline is going to be used hauling me & my stuff out of the way. ;-)

Was mostly wondering if people who had temperature-sensitive medications, etc., might be able to use something like that. Of course, they'll probably evacuate too.

[dixie sass]

I believe that they are advised to keep them in coolers. I think that's what they told my brother, the minister. He takes insulin.

[AnAmericanMother]

Actually, the little refrigerators work pretty well for keeping stuff cool but not extra-cold. They work via heat exchanger so the temperature is limited by the outside air temperature. . . the best they can do is 25-30 degrees cooler than the outside air IIRC (don't hold me to the number). So if it's hot outside (or in the car) they don't do that good a job. Good enough for keeping stuff refrigerator-door-cool (somewhere in the 50s) but not cold drink cold. Of course I'm a Southerner born and bred, and like my Co-Cola drifting around in a big galvanized cooler box full of frigid water with big chunks of ice floating in it.

But it's a whole lot better than nothing if you can't buy ice! For medicine and perishable items it would buy you some time.