I’ll add here that we have a couple large 5v USB battery banks (two outputs, 20,000 maH total) and a couple smaller ones, along with a couple 4 port chargers. The big banks allow one to accumulate substantial energy relatively quickly, in case one gets into rationing the generator (ie., off as much as or more than on), can be charged from a car too, and are very portable of course.
We also have a stash of NiMh A - D & also Li 18650 batteries with a couple chargers including one that runs off 120v AC or 12v DC. (My 18650 powered LED headlamps are great, even if way overrated on eBay.)
An aside: I’d trade this pattern giving us wonderful weather in the Midwest for quite a bit worse, if it’d “ease” things for those in the way of Florence, but, I don’t think THAT prayer is going to work... :-(
I should add since Hugo there has been huge population growth along the coast
For example New Hanover county(Wilmington)
pop 1990 120K
pop 2017 227K