If the power's been out long enough that the food in your fridge/freezer went bad, call your homeowner's insurance.

Most homeowner policies have a rider that they'll pay for food spoilage for power outages. Two (?) summers ago we were without power for 10 hours or so and had to toss out everything, right after a major stock up trip, which sucked, but sucked a lot less when we got a reimbursement check after a simple 15 minute phone call.