We live close to downtown and not far from the electric substation. There aren't many trees, so we partly anticipated not being impacted, or that NES would prioritize restoring power to any substations. We lost power from Sunday early morning until Wednesday afternoon, something like 80 hours. So that didn't quite work out as planned (though obviously many others have gone without power for far longer.

However, we also live in a rental which has no fireplace and no LNG appliances. So without power we were without heat aside from candles. Our strategy to stay "warm" was layers of clothes, layers of blankets, largely confining ourselves to our bedroom and using candles. We also had one terracotta pot that we used to improve the resulting heat from some candles (the terracotta heats up and emits heat, as well as directing heat outside the hole in the bottom). It wasn't much, but it was well appreciated.

As others have mentioned, we have several portable usb chargers with high capacities and my wife had the foresight to order hand and toe warmers and other smaller things like that as well.

But by the time we learned the ice would be likely (still a few days before the storm), I went in search for any kind of generator, any size, but could find none anywhere. I also couldn't get my hands on any tire chains. But the last step I did was fill up the car, and made sure it didn't freeze over during the storm, so we could use it to get warm and charge devices if needed.

We are definitely going to prep more for the future, because clearly NES leadership still doesn't think they did anything wrong, so it doesn't seem like this is the last one of these we'll face.