Uh here in Beautiful Apex NC I lost power for 4 days. Spent the days at work or out or at my kid’s house. The eves in the Dark house lest someone try to break in. Am now going to buy a generator as I’ve been through this (successfully as here I write) too many times. Have a switch-box put in for all the big things and be the envy of my neighbors (about 5 or 6 of them already have one):.)
During hurricane Sandy we lost power for 5 days...I learned from that disaster. I now have a generator that is set up for back feed into the house. We lost power for 4 days during an ice storm in 2014-—other than filling the generator every 10 hours our life was normal. Heat, water, cable, lights, stove top, hot showers, etc. When I went online crazy people were in their houses posting temperatures of 38 degrees.
Excellent idea I did the same about 2 years ago after having to toss out $300 dollars worth of food twice in one year.
Since then I have used it on two occasions and I can it set up in under 5 min.
Just make sure you have sufficient gas on hand because if it is a major outage there will not be a gas station in your area with the ability to pump.
I have a 15 gal hand cart that I use to refill my boat, it would run my generator for well over a week.