Hurricane Sandy's power outages can be avoided

If you were in the area hit by power failures, and if you have solar panels on your roof, your broccoli and frozen blueberries are going to be fine.
One or 2 PV panels will run a kitchen if you don't use everything at once, a couple more will run it all, a couple more will run most of a small house.  If you have a small battery system you'll have lights into the night as well.
If you live in West Virginia where they predict snow, no worry, solar panels even work under snow.    In fact, a light snow makes them more efficient due to the millions of reflective and magnifying surfaces it creates.
Solar power sounds better all the time.  If I wasn't 50 feet north of a row of six 100 foot tall cottonwoods I would have PV's, but they shade the house year round almost all day, very nice in the summer, it lowers my air conditioning bill.