Preparing for power outages

I'm sure many of you are aware of the storm the northeast is getting slammed with. I wanted to start a thread about what you guys do for power outages, short of buying a generator or other backup like that. I really should get one, but other than that, what do you guys suggest for keeping everything happy and healthy during power outages? We rarely lose power (here in Boston proper) for more than 6 or 8 hours, but I'm not sure we've ever gotten the amount of snow we are forecast to get (estimates up to 3 feet).



Thanks for the help gang, from all of us in the northeast.