We had never lived in an area with power outages (literally I can not remember EVER having one) So when we moved to OH it was a bit of a shock and I did a fair bit of complaining. The first summer we lived here we had the derecho, and went a week without power in July. That SUCKED. We could not get ice anywhere, so we lost all our food. We could not use our stove because it was electric. We drove the 2 hours to my in-laws and stayed with them. Sorry not sorry.
Our town is rural and has a ton of huge trees, so it loses power a lot. Usually just for a few hours or a day, but sometimes longer. Our 1st house had a lot of outages, our second house was in a neighborhood with buried power lines so it was ok, and now we are back in a rural area and the house came with a back-up generator. It gives me a lot of peace of mind to have that, since we have a deep freeze and fridge full of food, kids that need to be kept warm in the winter and fed, etc.
That said, I wasn't busy complaining that I couldn't get Starbucks, but that we HAD NO FOOD and it was eleven billion degrees out, and the kids were freaking out because of dark.