I was out for approx. 2 days after Irene and 9 days after the 2011 Halloween storm in Northern CT.
Storm Sandy resulted in a 6 hour outage and several brief 10-20 second outages.
Both knocked me out for 8 days (each). Only about 8 hours for this storm. Pretty shocked by the whining going on locally. Saw some woman from Orange complaining how horrible it was, just horrible, while she sat in a shelter with an intact home. For those who don’t know the area, Orange is no where near the worst impacted area, just dealing with a power outage (on day 4, which ought to be in your 7-10 day prep time period).
I mean WTH CT people, suck it up. We didn’t have it near as bad as anyone else in the tri-state area. What are you gonna do when we get our typical ice storm?