because we're rural, and in short order I'm irritated by being inconvenienced and within a couple hours feeling deprived and wondering when it'll come back on. And we have bottles of water in kitchen for drinking and in the powder room closet for flushing when the power goes off, typically the first issues to arise, so we're better off than most.
A really easy way to identify some issues would be to turn the breakers in the breaker box/fuse panel off for a few hours or more and see what happens. Won't take long to get the first insight. 
Food and water is all we have some decent prep for. Other stuff? My husband doesn't take it seriously, and I'm neither tecchy or thorough, and we keep using some things. Duct tape's supposed to have whole pack of uses, but I recently noticed the rolls bought on sale and stashed on my emergency supplies shelf in the basement are down to one. I think my husband must have been giving it away. Pretty sure he hasn't used it to reinforce his shoes, tape his broken glasses together, seal doors against flood and heat loss, construct an emergency shelter, create a sling for a broken arm, etc. But now I know to hide it. 
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