A hand pump is on my list of projects as we are on a well too. Did you install it yourself or hire someone?
Power outages are brutal for us because of the lack of water. But we are surrounded on 3 sides by cattle ranches so meat won't be hard to get.
Our house sits high on a hill but the front portion is lower and my son and husband were able to dig by hand and hand drill about 10ft. down to hit the water. We called a well driller to do it first off but he said that, in Michigan, it is illegal for him to install it.
If the economy goes in free fall the ranchers around you may not be able to feed their cattle. You might think of a back up plan like keeping a breeding pair of meat rabbits? They eat pellets, grass, leaves and hay. They multiply like traditional Catholics, too.