If a hurricane hits your neighborhood dead on then your top concern is probably your house and furniture (other precious items can be taken along in an evacuation).
But when the hurricane doesn’t do much pervasive damage, the priorities and burdens of costs are rearranged. Say all that happens is your power goes out. Tossing what would otherwise be perfectly good meat into the trash is disappointing.
There’s got to be some way to harness battery power in the event of a short but significant power outage to maintain some optimal temperature to keep food from going bad. Just a week or so would make a world of difference.