We are looking into a generator for backup electricity. I know getting fuel may not be easy. But just in case I can, I’ll have some food in the freezers.
I never thought about a solar method. I remember my parents drying fruit inside a screen porch when I was a kid.
Hurricane Katrina taught me a lot about trying to find fuel for a small generator. No power to gas stations meant no fuel available. It meant listening to the transister radio for reports of stations that had fuel and power to pump it. Which means you need fuel for your vehicle to get there and also get back and then enough left into the vehicle’s tank to get to the next station a few days later. Also they limited the number of gallons you could buy. And everybody else was also headed there. It was difficult.