I mean that two ways. (1) Don’t rely on frozen food for an emergency, because (2) there may be no freezers working.

In a serious emergency and practically every disaster situation, electrical power goes out. It can stay out for weeks. Or longer. We’ve seen it happen this winter in various locations around the country as power lines are taken out by trees that have been simply weighted down by snow and ice.

There are factors that can make food in a freezer last a while with the power off. It may be winter outside, and all you have to do to keep the food sub-zero is take the freezer outside. But that isn’t possible in most places. The other possibility is to have an alternate source of power to generate electricity. If you have something like a wind power generator, or a real solar setup that gives you lots of juice, you’ve got it made in the shade… if you want to divert that much of your precious auxiliary power to a freezer. As far as having a gas-powered generator, unless you live next to a gasoline cracking plant, you’re going to run out sooner or later. Probably sooner.
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