Last week's storm was the first significant (>1 minute) power outage we've had in 13 years of living at the current QTH. Was out for 12 hours.
Back in 1992-93, wHen I lived in Manila, we were VERY lucky to have 12 hours of power a day. I lived on the 11th floor of an apt building my first year there; a generator ran the elevator and water pump and that's it. After all the abuse it crapped out and it was a lot of fun to come home from work, climb 11 stories in the 90+ heat then not even be able to take a shower to cool off.
Cuba (2001-03): 2 weeks no power after a hurricane. Thankfully we had a generator, but there were times when the generator didn't fire up - it very rare to have more than 18 hours of power a day there, hurricane or not.
Kenya (90-92): usually 6 hours a day with no electricity. And always turned off at 6 PM for some reason, not during the day when you didn't need it. VERY aggravating.
I've visited over 70 countries and few have the reliability and quality of power we enjoy here. We are VERY fortunate in this country