Buy a generator for your home before the rush.
They’re planning on switching us to the smart meters too (XEL in the TX panhandle). Imagine what the envitro’s can get them to do with that.
We live in an outlying area that loses power frequently sometimes for days at a time. We and all of our neighbors have backup generators. Many of us have backup generators for our backup generators. Fortunately our neighborhood has natural gas which currently costs less than a third of what it costs to power a generator with gasoline or propane and much less than diesel as well. But even with natural gas when the power goes out depending on your load and the efficiency of your generator it still costs two to three times as much as when we are billed for electricity.