We park our pod at a friend's farm rather than at our house because we're in a year-round flood zone and Evac zone along the Shoreline. We had originally planned to go to the pod if the power was going to be out for more than a day, mostly for showers and to move some things into the pod-fridge, but there were so many trees and power lines down that there was no way to bring the pod down to the house immediately after Irene.
By the time the roads were clear enough to get the pod down, we were 4 days without power and the power came back on at 5 1/2 days.... At least we got a few hot showers in it.
We always have our pod-bag and evac-bags (with a small propane stove) packed and ready to go if we had to.
-T