Most people have a several-hundred-watt backup generator at home: their car. You can idle most cars for at least 2 hours per gallons of gas. That means with a 2

Most people have a several-hundred-watt backup generator at home: their car. You can idle most cars for at least 2 hours per gallons of gas. That means with a 20 gallon tank, you have 40 hours of charging time for electronics. If you need to charge for an hour every six hours, for example, you'd have 10 days of phone usage. I've had uninterrupted internet through many multi-day power outages with just my car and a $20 inverter to recharge my phone and laptop. I always fill up the car before a dangerous storm. No car? You can buy pocket-sized power banks that recharge a phone to full multiple times for $5 a piece. Keep one per phone around for power outages and enjoy your movies. P.S. If you have Verizon FiOS, you can keep your wired internet on too. The ONT uses almost no power; with a little hacking you can hook that up to a backup battery or your car too. Unlike cable, which needs powered repeaters on the phone poles every mile or so, your fiber's probably still connected in a power outage so long as the line hasn't physically been broken.