Man that really sucks. Have you looked into entire house generators or are those just too expensive? I know of a couple people who have them that live in the country.

They decided to get on when they realized any small power outage and they'd be the last ones to get power back due to where they live so instead of going days without power every snow storm they at least had a back up option that they could (so far) rely it kicking on all by itself when they lost power.