A flat storage room with a compact upright freezer, seen close and low, the freezer door or lid catching the light.

San Francisco, San Francisco Bay Area

Freezer repair in Marina.

Flats on the filled ground that shook hard in 1989, where the freezer in the garage below is braced against movement, and how long the food stays safe after an earthquake or a power shutoff depends on how full the cabinet was and how long the lid stayed shut.

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What Marina does
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In the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, four people died in the Marina, four buildings burned, seven collapsed and 63 more were judged too dangerous to live in.

The region's power losses in that quake came mainly from damaged substations, and most of San Francisco had electricity again by midnight.

Households in 94123, the Marina's ZIP code, average 1.9 people, and fewer than 9 percent have four or more.

Chestnut Street, between Fillmore and Lyon, is the neighborhood's main strip of shops, bakeries and restaurants.

Also known as Marina District.

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Apartments and small homes

In a small apartment the freezer is often a compact upright in a closet or a hallway nook, where the heat it gives off through its walls or rear coil has nowhere to go, and a closet door kept shut all day turns that nook into a warm box the compressor never catches up with.

On the water

Along salt water a garage or patio freezer loses its condenser and its tubing to corrosion long before its insulation wears out, and a slow warming there is checked for a pinhole leak where salt has eaten through a joint.

Tower living

A tower's generator usually carries the elevators, the stair lights and the pumps rather than the apartments, so a freezer on a high floor warms like any other in an outage, and the plan is to keep it shut and know where a cooler and bagged ice can be found.