Bummer on the freezer
There are commercially made alarm systems for that ya know.
When we were kids in the USAF we supplemented our paltry income by managing the apartments we lived in off base. The apartments were of course pretty commensurate with our income level......not nice.
This was in Merced, CA, central valley was plenty hot. As the managers we got the pleasure of cleaning out apartments and painting them for new tenants.
There is nothing worse than a fridge full of food that has sat for a month or two W/O power. Would have been best to take the entire thing to the dump W/O opening the door.
Noooo.......we had to clean them out. I can think of very few things that are more gross.