Consumers Energy Planned Outage

We have a planned outage tonight for eight hours. No AC, no fans, no fridge/freezer. I'll sleep in the basement, but why doesn't CE offer a credit for what will likely spoil in the fridge? Anything without refrigeration for over four hours is not safe to consume; the freezer should be okay but not the refrigerated items. According to their site, they only offer a credit if we are w/o power in this situation for 16 hours (and coincidentally, if they don't get the work done they are going to do it again next Saturday).