Lights out. Stay Calm Teresa!

Yikes! Last night a huge storm blew through causing my lights to go out. Now this sounds harmless enough until you realize that I am deathly afraid of pitch blackness in this apartment! When I go to bed I leave like, oh, three to four lights on. But remember this is only about a three to four room apartment!
So, last night I traipse off to bed and start to fall asleep when suddenly the storm comes through causing all kinds of commotion. The lights flickered but they held in there but then they flickered again and all was dark. For a few minutes I'm just stunned because I have never had this place absolutely dark since I've lived here (one year, that's quite a record I'm sure!). Soon, the darkness started pressing in on me so I hopped up and went to get the flashlight. Hmm...flashlights just make things a lot creepier I soon found out so I quickly turned it off. I then went back to bed and huddled under the covers for the next few minutes praying for light to return, but alas it did not.
You are now wondering, Teresa, why are you so scared of this apartment, and I would reply....because it's crazy old! It was built to be a neighborhood grocery store back in....1892!!! Do you know how much this building has seen? Or who knows what has happened here?! Do you people not watch horror movies??
But I digress. Huddling under the covers I soon realize, hey, you could suffocate like this, so I pulled them back and just stared at the wall. Staring at the wall seemed safe so I did that for a while but soon I started falling asleep (thank you God!) and all seemed well. And it was. The lights came back on, my apartment was lit up like a Christmas tree again, and all was right with the world.
Now I'm wondering, in the event that this happens again, if they sell battery powered lamps. I would not have freaked out so badly if my lamps would have been able to stay on. Oh, and battery powered night lights, and battery powered Christmas lights, and battery powered battery chargers...just in case!