I hear you. We had a 2 hour power failure on Sunday due to a blizzard. We were totally unprepared as the heat went out (gas furnaces have electric starters) and the water trickled to a stop (my well has an electric pump) and the daylight vanished.
We went out in the storm to get gas for the car, food at a restaurant, and a battery operated lantern. By the time we got home, electricity was restored. But, we are really quite vulnerable.
I have a generator, but it has to operate outside and will only run a couple of appliances. We really need to get organized.
We have a well, 120 feet deep and don’t have a hand pump. What we do have is water tanks which we currently fill up by turning on the well pump, then a 12 volt pressure pump to put it into the house. We did have gravity fed, and will again. We have a separate tank for drinking water, which is gravity fed into the house. The water is the same, but the drinking water tank is stainless steel. The other tanks are plastic, okay for potable water. We got several at farmers’ supply places. If the electricity goes off, most people with wells are really bad off. We also have a generator that runs the well pump, in fact we used it for about 3 years until we got electricity.
There is no work around for water. Ideally it would be great to have a clean stream or spring. But no such luck.