We personally didn’t have electricity for 8 days.
There were other parts of our town didn’t lose electricity at all.
Flooding was bad along the river. The tidal surge was 13’. The local river has a tide differential of 8’, so 13’ over that was rockin’. The river overflowed it’s banks up to a mile in some places BUT this area makes the Netherlands look like Colorado.
WE were luck in Maryland as Sandy turned up your way, we got wind and rain. The news and state made sure everyone here thought we would get it and we didnt.
Back around July 4th 2012 we got a freak thunder and lightnight storm that was so windy that many parts of my county here lost power for over 8 days(thousands were affected) , and that time of year it gets quite hot and humid without AC. Naturally the food went bad, but a few stores have generators to stay open.
Those were neighborhoods with above ground power lines and lots of trees that had it bad > 8 days no power, newer developments with underground power lines faired much better