I slept through a storm last night that was powerful enough to take out the power here for 10 hours. I had the genny going all day for the fridge and freezers. Going into winter, the fridge is not so much a problem but the freezers are unless it is VERY cold outside. And even then, it would be a huge job to transfer all that food outside into a safe space to keep it frozen. It's not likely to get that cold here for at least a couple of months. I try not to keep too much gas on hand because it is hard to get gas that has no ethanol in it which isn't great for the generator. (it settles out in a few months and can mess up the engine) I can buy fuel stabilizer but it's fairly expensive. But if we got a big outage, say a week, it would be hard to have that much fuel stored either way. We would be cooking and canning food like crazy but still some would be lost to spoilage. 

This is my weak spot in prepping. I don't have solar yet, because of finances. We are good for water, heat, and light. Until I can install solar for food preservation, the best thing to do is can as much as possible instead of relying on frozen food. 

Just a thought for the coming times. 

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 All good thoughts!

Solar doesn't HAVE to be expensive. If you don't mind it being offgrid and DC it is absurdly cheap. I have run a big DC camping freezer off three solar panels and a solar regulator. Without expensive batteries it doesn't run at night - but that's when its cold outside anyway and you're not opening it either.