You might have heard that you can get reimbursed for food you lost during the blackout, but apparently it's a rumor. According to the New York Daily News, Rotten food? Rotten luck, sez Con Ed:
The utility's policy is to cover claims up to $350 per household when the electricity is zapped.
It even has a form on its Web site that customers can use to claim food losses, and consumers have been E-mailing them around.
But Con Ed said yesterday that the policy doesn't apply to last week's outage, which left millions of its customers in the dark for 12 to 29 hours.
Drat! When I heard, I got my hopes up. It figures I'd recently filled my freezer with all sorts of things only days before the outage.