Best of luck to you.
I hope you've got a propane or nat gas barbecue and/or stove. It's time to start eating whats in the fridge. Take food from the freezer, and put it in the fridge until it defrosts. It will keep the fridge cold as it defrosts, and you're eating what was in the fridge. Time to gorge yourself. Better to put on a couple pounds than trash a bunch of very valuable food.
Thanks. Fortunately, instead of being a multi-day outage, it looks like power got restored around 3 pm on Thurs, 10/10. I'm glad as the worst case would've been an outage for 5 to 7 days.
As for fridge, there was virtually nothing perishable in my fridge anyway. No, I don't have a nat gas or propane stave.
For my freezer, I ended up taking all my frozen stuff to work and putting them in freezers at work. I put my name on them, in the hopes someone wouldn't snag them. On one evening, I took half those items to my parents' house (not knowing how much room they really had).
On this note, for Bolt, once the car's in READY mode, does this strategy effectively prevent the Bolt's stupid timeout shutdown/auto-park?
Enter on passenger's side. Apply parking brake. Use a pipe or rod to push down on the brake pedal to shift from P to N. Exit from passenger side.
Answering my own question. Yes, it works. During the outage, I intentionally woke up every few hours to make sure the car hadn't auto-powered itself down. I didn't need to use any sort of elastic or rubber band to hold anything down or into a certain position.
I didn't need to leave a key fob in the car either although I had it on me whenever I approached my car. I never did open any of the doors or touch any of the buttons. I sometimes just listened for the pedestrian noisemaker sound while going to the garage. I also spent time double checking my setup to make sure I wasn't in any danger of a clamp coming loose or short circuit.
I screwed up on a few things before leaving for work on Thursday morning due to having to rush for a meeting + having to spend extra time to disconnect my inverter then manually opening and closing my garage door. I had no expectation that power would be back until at least Friday. Supposedly, once the weather event passed, PG&E would have to inspect all the lines in the fire hazard areas for damage (that lead to my area) from the weather event and make any repairs, if needed. Original predictions from a few days back were that the high winds would die down around Thurs 5 pm.
By screw up, I meant that I forgot turn the UPSes that ran my Drop Cams, cable modem and wireless access point/router to on so that even though their batteries would die, when power came back up, they'd come back up. Also, I forgot to plug my security camera NVR system's UPS back into the wall outlet for the same thing to happen. I returned home to find all of those things off (2 UPSes off, last one dead due to not being plugged in). Whoops.
Less important was the UPS for my TiVo. I also forgot to turn it back on before leaving.