That's crazy, if wind storms knock out power that often, it's time for the city to start burying the lines and not have them above ground.
I've only ever been without power for more than a couple hours once in my life. Basically our entire state had an ice storm of the century back in the early 2000s, and it torn down every electrical line in the entire state. Was without power about 4 days, but some people were without power for upwards of 2 weeks. Shit was crazy, but I've never seen anything like it before or since(thankfully)
There was so much freezing rain that the ice piled up thick enough that it completely filled in the parking lot of my apartment complex at the time. The paved parking lot has a 6" high or whatever curb around the edge of it, and the ice filled it like a swimming pool up to the top...the whole parking lot was a silky smooth ice skating rink, as thick as the edging/curb was deep.