We’ve had power outages to deal with for years both in Central NY and here in NH.
Around here almost everyone is ready. When you look at realtor listings, it’s not unusual to see people put pictures of the auxiliary electrical panel that is used for their generator for power outages.
Down here when they build new housing developments most people go with propane because they also add a standby generator in with the new house package. They built a subdivision down the street from my former house. Almost every new house had a brand new generator on the back corner of the house.
To go along with that I actually saw the guy from Asphung Tree Service on my road a week or so ago. This is the guy in the pick up truck that goes around and marks the trees to be cut around the power lines. The thing is that they marked some of these trees in February of 2019 when I was working from home for one month. They never cut the trees down. Just put up new blue & white ribbons around the trunks. Maybe that means they area actually planning on cutting trees SOON.