Reminds me of the 04 hurricane season. I went 15 days w/out power. I used the gas grill for everything. I also had a cheap inverter that I ran off my car battery and it ran the tv and a fan. Ice was hard to come by.
The next year I had a generator and it was a little easier as I could run the fridge. The no a/c thing is the killer down here.
We had a couple of weeks electrical outage one summer during our hottest month of the year.
We just happened to have a couple of window air condidtioners from when our central air was not working and waiting for repairs.
We stuck those in a couple of bedroom windows. Ran a TV, air conditioners, refrigerator, freezer, and oxygen concentrator with an extra plug left for the electric skillet or microwave. My Dad could not have survived without the oxygen. The air conditioner and TV meant he was just a comfortable as when the electricity worked. And we all appreciated the comfortable temperature at night.