We had back-tp-back ice storms one winter back in the early 90's, lost power during both for 8-9 days. By the 2nd storm I had a generator. The house we live in now is wired for the generator. I can run all of the receptacles and the well pump. Been in this house for 17 years now and have had 3 outages that lasted more than a couple of hours, but none for 24 hours[of course].
