I'm very experienced with this. In 04 we lost power for seven days in the summer. In 08 we lost power for eight days because of Hurricane Ike, and we live in Kentucky, go figure. That was September. In January 09 we lost power for eight days in January!!! That was horrible! We did have water, and have a gas stove so could cook some. We ate out every night just so we could get warm because there were places with power. We bought a standby generator after that. Now we'll never be without power because it's connected to the gas line. We've had to use it once. The power went out and within 10 seconds the generator came on.
Good luck, and this will pass soon.