Submitted by South-Satisfaction84 t3_ztvflf in Maine
I live in OOB but I’m down in Maryland for Christmas. How’s the power situation today? I’m just wondering if I should be tossing my food from the fridge when I get back. I didn’t have much in there when I left, just a few things I was hoping to eat when I got back.
It’s been much calmer in the mid-Atlantic region from my understanding
This is some top tier advice.
I prefer the method of just putting some ice cubes in a glass. If they they still have their shape when I get back then they didn’t melt. And you can tell even if they just melted a little bit because they’re is a puddle at the bottom of the glass. Means I don’t need to think ahead and freeze a cup of water or find a penny.
Also, as I/mrlonely_ pointed out you could have a situation where most of the cup melts but the penny ends up on a little iceberg so it doesn’t drop.
Another option is to take a bottle that stands nicely upside down like a Gatorade bottle and half fill it, let it freeze and than flip it upside down. The coin method works but the part that the coin is on might not melt first.
Oh, this is a nice tip...at least for people unlike me whose freezers are not packed to the brim.
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Don't you miss the days you could call your house and if the answering machine picked up you had power?
I just check my cameras now and if my cameras are offline for more than 10 minutes I will get a notification informing me that they're offline which means either the internet is down or I've lost power.
I also get a notification for CMP if power is out at my location so I personally don't miss having a landline and an answering machine.
In Gray; power’s been out since 9am on 12/23. It’s 1:56am on 12/24 and I woke up to investigate a thud…still no power and thud is inconclusive.
Uh oh! Good luck!
I live in OOB and haven't lost power at all. I'm about 2 miles from the beach though.
If your place is within a few blocks of the beach it may be flooded. There is also a few outages downtown.
It’s about a half mile from the beach. I hope that’s far enough
Live in Saco but went down to check on beach today and most of OOB and Ocean park flooded today and lost power probably 6/7hrs
Thank you for the hours! That’s what I was hoping to hear. I probably won’t keep my food then
I am in Bangor, just off of Mt. Hope, and we were fine. My coworker, a long with another 330 residents of Hampden are not so lucky. Hers has been out since 3ishPM, and it is now 12:30am.
We’re good in York county. For once we did. It loose power.
If your house lost power it was likely for long enough to spoil the food.. pretty much everyone I know that lost power lost it for 24ish hours+
Yeah thankfully it was only a pack of cheese and almond milk that was new last week
In Skowhegan and have power.
Sweden is still out of power since about 6pm yesterday
BeardedBaxterholic t1_j1fook8 wrote
Next time you go away, freeze a cup of water. Once frozen, place a coin on top. When you return, if the coin is on top, you're good. If it's sunk at all, you'll know a thaw has occurred.