Last year, we got snowed in and had no power for a week. We were up in running within a short period of time. Generator going, coffee brewing, hamburgers cooking on the Coleman stove.
It took our neighbors a while to get their acts together. None of them had a generator. Luckily, they all had heat of some sort - either propane or wood. The first day, we were delivering coffee to folks, until they could make their own. God forbid someone might suffer caffiene withdrawls.
There’s something to being survivalists.
A real survivalist has his spare generators stored in a Faraday cage so that they will work after an EMP event. ;-)