Silent Earth
A True Doomsday Prepper
We have a lot of different knots we use around the ranch. Especially those that hold well, but can be undone with the right pull, for tying up horses, etc.
You'd be surprised. After Irma, we were out of power for almost 5 full days. We didn't lose any frozen items at all, and didn't have a generator (a mistake that will be remedied before THIS storm season gets going).... Trick is to really pack that freezer prior to the outage, and then only go into it a couple times each day. Period.
We also had another freezer that just had frozen water bottles, so when we opened the other....we'd stick in frozen bottles to take the items taken out's place.
On a similar vein we keep some precut sheets of 50mm foil covered insulation foam sheeting that we wrap our chest freezer with if their is a power cut thus doubling its insulation, and we also keep a few freezer pack blocks in the little freezer to add to the chest freezer to increase the ice mass.