On power outages and privilige

[smurasaki]

Last week, there was a power outage at my apartment complex.  A "trunk" went down (I believe that was the term the maintenance guy used) and a chunk of the building, including my apartment, was without power all night (9 or 10 hours).  This was a nuisance to me - I had to use a kitchen timer as an alarm clock and throw out perishable food, but only

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[cmcmck]

Our household insurance covers freezer breakdown/power failure and the need to replace ruined frozen/chilled food.

did you manage to use any of the groceries?

[smurasaki]

It's primarily meat and dairy products that one has to worry about, which wasn't that much food. Mildly irritating, but not a big deal.

We don't have that kind of insurance here. (We really only pretend to be part of the civilized world.)