Most of the repeaters in my area have diesel generator back up that's _supposed_ to be good for three days.
A backup generator doesn't do much good if it's under water. Some of the new Honda generators are more than enough to run a 100 W mobile station and portable enough to be moved up to the higher stories of a building, if need be. Of course, running a gas-fired generator inside a building is a questionable practice...
My suggestion is to stick with a dual band 2M/70cm handheld, and be sure you can use it with AAs.
Or something like the Yaesu FT-817ND, which will work all-band, all-mode, and isn't much more difficult to transport than the average HT, plus it still runs off of AAs in a pinch, even at 5 watts. Most HT's won't run full power on AAs--they usually automatically turn down to 2 W, 1.5 W, or even .5 or .3 W when running on AAs. The 817 goes automatically to 2.5 W, but can be manually reset to 5 W.
5 Watts will kill your batteries pretty quick.
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