Storm Damage Wine Cellar sibeer If the temperature slowly increased from about 55 to 70 degrees F over 3 days, I doubt if there was any damage to your wine at all. Exceptions might be extremely old wines and ones with corks that are beginning to fail. It is very likely that your wine saw temperatures of 70 degrees and likely much higher before you cellared it, unless you bought it directly from the wine maker who had a cool cellar and if you put the wine in your cellar without delay. I keep a portable generator and have enough gasoline on hand to cool my wine room, run the refrigerator and freezer, and run a few lights in case of extended outage. I have had to use it twice. Such generators are not extremely expensive and cost far lest than the damage to wines and food might be for just one extended outage.Just be sure you have enough heavy duty electrical cables on hand to reach everything you need to operate in case of outage. If money is no object, a natural gas or propane generator can be bought that automatically starts and switches your electrical box to run essential things in an emergency. Hospitals and other critical services have to have such generators. But as one might guess, the generator and labor to install it is very expensive. 
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