Ayuh!
I growed up on one of them farms - they got 'lectrified in the early 1950's.
I'm now an old great granny - lived all over this h'ar Younited States, from really rural to big city and in between - from humble cottage to mansion.
Decided to come back to the woods and altho' I'm 'lectrified and got indoor plumbing, I also have my wood stove and kerosene lamps and my well.
Come the infamous Ice Storm of '98, no power for 19 days - I didn't have to spend hundreds of dollars to stay in a motel. I'm utilizing the best of both worlds = ready for however it hits.
Ha-yuk; yep; lived in big cities, small towns, "spots on the map", and rural acreages. Lived sleeping on other people's couches/Hide-A-Beds; studios with a mattress on the floor; Murphey bed once; mobiles, small houses, big houses, a HUGE house; had multiple houses in multiple states...and some of those I've done more than once.
I'm happy with the old, renovated ranch house that NOW, since I added it when we bought it, has indoor plunbing and electricity...and high speed DSL & satellite service.
Still keep the outhouse in 'working order'; put a new roof on it last summer, "just in case". I also keep the lamps filled, though I have not had to use them since we left "civilization", where we regularly had outages lasting from hours to days...yet now live in miles off pavement, and a harsher climate.
When we bought the ranch in 95, we also bought 2 8,500 watt portable generators "just in case". One is still in the shipping carton; the other has never had oil or gas put in it, as it sits gathering dust in the garage. The last time the 5,000 watt unit that we used regularly in Oregon was fired up was to keep the freezer cold on the 3 day trip hauling it here in the big horse trailer. I'd start it & let it run an hour at a motel while I had dinner; fire it up again the next morning while I had breakfast. It has sat in the barn ever since.I didn't need to be a Boy Scout, though I was, to intimately know "Be Prepared" is more than a suggestion; it's a way of life.