That's a big area - it was reported in the New York Times.
The last big outage we had was four years ago when Superstorm Sandy hit, followed by an early snow storm less than a week later. We lost power for about 24 hours in each case, but some people were without power for two weeks. The gas still worked on the stove, so we used that and the barbeque for cooking. In truth, "colonial" living gets old really fast!