For us on East Coast of VA. It is hurricanes, tornadoes, and Nor’easter. Winter it is not so bad. We do get snow and sometimes ice but not that bad. I usually stay home till it melts and just clean up driveway and walkway. We have lost power for a full 2 weeks and had no problem. Only thing is that we have a whole house gen. and it failed. Seems the ones made the year we got ours had some issues and the company took care of that and no more problems, but I still prepare for power outages because of that. We had dry ice in freezer that kept our food frozen for 7 days. Then we put food in cooler and took to Farmers Market and put in their freezers as they had a generator and kept Market open for people to get food to eat and to get water for their jugs. We stayed and kept the coffee going for people. DH’s cousin owns the market and we gave out free coffee and had hoses pulled for people to get water anytime day or night. That was when the neighborhood next to us, part on well water and a tornado took out the pumping station. We were on septic tank at that time as well but was on city water. So those on well was without water for 2 weeks and did not prepare. Everyone because of that was put on city water and we had to go off septic and on city sewage because of that. it changed the landscape of the other neighborhood.
