I'm in NJ and I don't know if we get that particular news station or not.....sounds pretty typical, though.
We got hit hard by the hurricane but in our case only lost power for a few days.
It really did make me think, though, about people who need electricity to power their oxygen tanks or whatever --- some of those including severely handicapped kids.
We are so very, very dependent on our infrastructure working --- but just over the past few years we've had to get used to ours not working for days or weeks at a time here in rural NJ. Power will just go out because of a tree falling and the electrical company is more concerned with cities (even though they're not usually the ones having any problems) than us. My cable Internet has been wonky for years. I started aggressive calls to Comcast July 4th. Still isn't fixed. Phone goes out randomly all the fucking time for NO reason. Verizon is very unhelpful, and when they do send one guy out from Trenton, it's always this horrid special snowflayke AssBergers's white kid about 22 who gives me all kind of attitude about living out on an old farm property so far in the country.
You pretty much have to have EVERYTHING backed up these days --- generators, extra propane and gas for generators, sump pumps for flooding, make sure some sump pumps are battery powered (many are electric,) have people in your neighborhood willing to make a buck helping remove debris from your driveway and immediate roads, redo the gravel that gets washed out and makes drives impassable -- it's nuts.
And with all states bankrupt right now, this is the new norm, people. It's every man for himself.
There were so many power outages within a fifty mile radius of us that when we found one restaurant to go to (a Chili's -- yuck) we both got food poisoning because the wait staff failed to inform us that condiments like guacamole, sour cream, etc. had obviously not been properly refridgerated during the outage and were now spoiled -- and they were fucking giving them to patrons. Nice.