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Goobster
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Power outages and eating at restaurants
I see so many people eating out.
Now I know I am a bit paranoid, but I am hesitant to eat anywhere other than my home, since I don't know if that eatery had power out and for how long and if the food was properly refrigerated during the outage. Anyone else think of this?
Message edited 8/30/2011 7:53:00 AM.
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Kris
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Re: Power outages and eating at restaurants
I would think businesses like that would have generators. But I AM leery of going to places that were actually flooded.
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Bearcat
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Re: Power outages and eating at restaurants
yes i think about that - also why i haven't gone food shopping even though we really need food. i'm probably more hesitant being i'm 8 months pg.
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| Posted 8/30/11 8:04 AM |
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Goobster
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Re: Power outages and eating at restaurants
Posted by Bearcat
yes i think about that - also why i haven't gone food shopping even though we really need food. i'm probably more hesitant being i'm 8 months pg.
I dont blame you. If I was pg, I would be super paranoid about this. Right now I am just cautious and going to avoid eating out for a good amt of time.
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smdl
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Re: Power outages and eating at restaurants
I don't go out to restaurants that lost powers, were flooded. Same for grocery stores.
I wait at least a full week prior to do so.
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Goobster
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Re: Power outages and eating at restaurants
Posted by smdl
I don't go out to restaurants that lost powers, were flooded. Same for grocery stores.
I wait at least a full week prior to do so.
Not sure which ones those are....I plan to go take a drive today
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smdl
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Re: Power outages and eating at restaurants
Posted by Goobster
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I don't go out to restaurants that lost powers, were flooded. Same for grocery stores.
I wait at least a full week prior to do so.
Not sure which ones those are....I plan to go take a drive today
I called my local grocery store on Sunday. They were open and told us they never lost power. So we go there. Since I don't know about the others, I won't go.
Restaurants... I may wait 2 weeks.
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I believe most reputable ones had or has generators to store food. My brother works at a restaurant and Sat night he was prepping the restaurant with boards and getting the generators running before they abandon ship so to speak.
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Erica
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Re: Power outages and eating at restaurants
I worked at friendly 's during hurricane bob. The lights went out for a few hours, but the industrial refrigerator/freezer was supposed to keep the temperature for 1-2 days
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Mrs213
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Re: Power outages and eating at restaurants
My friend owns a pizzeria/restaurant they had to throw away $1500 worth of food, I don't think a reputable place would risk it...
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| Posted 8/30/11 9:49 AM |
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Re: Power outages and eating at restaurants
My two local grocery stores were out of power for at least 24 hours....now I was in one of them Saturday night, and they had paper / plastic over the refridgerated cases already, and the meat section was pretty much empty...
But at almost 8 months pregnant, like BearCat, I am not risking it...I'm headed about 15 minutes away to the store I know that IF they ever lost power, only lost it for a couple of hours.
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Lina
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Re: Power outages and eating at restaurants
We ate out but only ate at large chain restaurants. I am fairly confident these places have generators- no way they would risk all that food going bad.
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Re: Power outages and eating at restaurants
I agree we won't be eating out for a while
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| Posted 8/30/11 11:11 AM |
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lynnd126
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Re: Power outages and eating at restaurants
My supermarket was powerless for days. I'm not shopping there for a few weeks.
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| Posted 8/30/11 11:16 AM |
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Re: Power outages and eating at restaurants
I did think of this too. I went to a the corss island farm yesterday to buy chicken to make soup since we are all sick and didnt think of it until we ate.
We were fine! LOL I dont think they lost power though.
I won't go foodshopping though this week. I will wait until next week.
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Re: Power outages and eating at restaurants
I am the same way, and I really hesitate to buy perishable food for home either, though I did get eggs and milk tonight. I just don't trust grocery stores to toss all the spoiled food.
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