That sucks…losing both power AND trees. This was quite common when we lived back East. Especially in the Boston metro west area…a heavily wooded neighbourhood and overhead power lines= frequent power outages. One particularly bad one was when a big tree limb came down taking down the road to house power line. So much of the general area, but not our immediate nabe, was affected that our problem wasn’t that urgent and we were without power for 6 days. Of course, freezer contents were lost, major inconvenience with no power in winter…but we did have a woodburning so didn’t freeze.
Real problem was, we were on well water…couldn’t flush toilets or shower. I had my gym gig so could go there everyday but poor husband was out to work too early and back too late for that to work for him. Fortunately, we had one faulty burner on our cooktop which didn’t cut the gas off so were able to melt snow for flushing and him to do a “top ‘n’ tail” so he didn’t stink. Thank gawd we’re English, I say.
You can bet we had an automatic generator installed afterwards…and I bought a really effective log splitter and one of these for smaller limbs…
Landscapers dealt with the ultra thick trunks and I reduced those to usable logs.