we've got little LED "nightlights" that double as flashlights so they are always charged, and turn on automatically when the power goes out. The charger they sit on is the nightlight. Pretty neat. Got one on each floor. They discharge about 6-8 hours of continuous use, but it's enough to get all the long-term outage supplies organized.

As we're pretty versed with hurricane induced outages (power, water, transportation), most of the stuff to survive (gas camp stove, radio, water jugs, etc.) is on a shelf in garage at eye level.

The family has had to go 4 days with no power/water (but the weather was absolutely perfect for those four days - cool temps, sunny, almost like a vacation) so far, and we did quite well eating food out of the fridge as it defrosted.

We had water because we knew the storm was a-comin' so we plugged/filled up all the bathtubs in the house for wash water, and filled up 3-4 water jugs (5 gallon) for drinking/cooking.

Also, I think Eton makes a radio/cellphone charger/flashlight that has a little hand-crank that keeps it running (about 15 seconds of cranking gives you about 1/2 hour radio)