I don’t think we lost power. I have a clear memory that my grandparents came to our house - perhaps the eye of the storm was closer to where they lived so they came to stay with us. I remember sitting on the sofa with them looking out the window. I was six.
We lost power for weeks with Sandy. And so did all the stores around us.
We did and the reason I remember this hurricane SO vividly, is because my mother "cooked" over a can of sterno, which made whatever she cooked ( cans of soup especially) taste like sterno and was disgusting!
Sandy was far worse! We lost power, for weeks, up here, from that storm. At least we have a generator.