If YEC does not get my power back on within a certain time, do you pay for spoiled food?

No. Since YEC has no con­trol over dam­age done to facil­i­ties dur­ing storms or oth­er nat­ur­al dis­as­ters, mem­bers at large could not be expect­ed to pay for any indi­vid­ual mem­ber’s food that might spoil due to storm dam­age and result­ing from elec­tric ser­vice inter­rup­tions. Remem­ber, elec­tri­cal dis­tur­bances that cause you dam­age are like­ly to cause your coop­er­a­tive dam­age too, but on a much larg­er scale. One light­ing strike, for exam­ple, can cause equip­ment fail­ure to your coop­er­a­tive cost­ing hun­dreds of thou­sands of dol­lars. There­fore, we do all we can to rea­son­ably pro­tect the elec­tric sys­tem. You must do your part by pro­tect­ing your own equip­ment from any storm dam­age or loss of pow­er.

Learn the ABCDs of food han­dling and stor­age in an emer­gency with our handy Keep­ing Food Safe guide.

Cat­e­go­ry: Pow­er Restora­tion FAQ