I remember Hurricane Irene in 2011... There wasn't a huge amount of flooding here in CT, at least away from the coast, although a lot of the lower places had a few inches of water on the road.
I was stuck in my neighborhood for an entire week, though - trees had come down and taken power lines with them at both ends of the U-shaped road which runs around the outside of it. Fortunately (?), I was unemployed at the time. So other than being inconvenienced, I wasn't personally greatly affected by it.
I also fortunately happen to have my own well, so water wasn't a problem other than having to go lower a bucket down to get it. I had a gas grill, and also built a small fire pit in the back yard to cook on.