Alan, you have My condolences, I had the same last year as well, she was so peculiar and preferred the feel of paper under her fingertips, said it made the story real.
It's a smaller one I can operate the refrigerator the deep freezer the kitchen stove, and some lighting in other words the essentials. The last nor'easter we were without power for a few days, it was a godsend that I had that already here.
got a generator, and a portable that I use for the back yard that has about a 3-4 hour battery life, living in a hurricane zone, makes you take weird preparations, sandbags.... useful, but rarely needed.
when this
https://downdetector.com/status/cox-communications/map/
is never an issue, then streaming will be on an even footage with most of America, but most of the rural areas are never at the bandwidth, and to get that bandwidth you will pay for it. Went to visit my family homeplace this...