It's a sad day!!!!

[TexasBowHunter]

As many of you know, I work in Mexico and am working right now. With Hurricane Ike headed towards my house, my wife fled to her parents with our kids last Thursday night as we live about 75 miles north of Houston. Well, my family is fine, my house has zero damage but there is one big tree down in the back by my barn but it didn't hit anything we were very lucky. Spoke to my wife this morning and she went back home last night for the first time and we still don't have any power, well guess what happened to all the deer meat in the freezers, yep....we lost it all, the link sausage, summer sausage, the hamburger, the steaks.....All of it!!!!
My father in law cleaned out all the fridge's and freezer's last nightbut all in allwe were very lucky. I will just have to hunt that much harder this year and thin out some of them doe's....Time to think about a standby generator....

[txjourneyman]

I'm glad to hear the family is well! My house is full of 6 Houstonians. They came up for an extended visit until things down there return to some level of normalcy. Good luck restocking that freezer!

[dmen]

Glad your family made it thru the storm safely. I am also going to be getting a back up generator.

[KYDeerHunter03]

I know the feeling about the power. Ike came up this way and left us without power since sunday. We just got it back last night around 6 and all our meat was unthawing. I also had a little problem with my taxidermy freezer.....I had to find people willing to babysit all my dead stuff until the power came back.[:'(]

[HuntingBry]

That sucks about the meat, but some folks don't have a house to put a freezer in. Glad to hear you and yours are safe and praying for everyone down there.

[Bullet Hole Bailey]

Man....it sure is a bummer about the meat....but your house and family is fine so that sure is a good thing!

[TexasBowHunter]

Yes, we were very lucky in the fact that there is so much damage in those parts and we had none other than the power going out....We were very blessed to be spared any other damage.

[OHbowhntr]

My friend you're blessed compared to many. For the record, we're on our own little "power outage" here in OHIO, and many or our power-linesmen were deployed to your area to help out, so I'm looking at maybe another week. At this rate, I'll probably burn about $150 in propane running my generator, but I'm not complaining, at least I have a home and didn't lose everything like some. Be thankful how blessed you are because it could have been FAR worse!!!

[rybohunter]

Losing some meat is better than houses or lives.

That said Ike's remnants knocked out power around here too. I had to take all my freezer items(way more than deer meat) to my sister's place or I was going to lose it. Of course the power kicked on 2-3 hours after the transfer. But I couldn't wait any longer some items had already thawed.

[davidmil]

YUP, a bummer for sure. I lost a freezer full about 4 years ago when the power was off for 7 days. Unhappy camper I was.