your power and/or internet goes out?
Part of this topic is because of other threads, but it's also from recent experience.
A few weeks ago we had an incident involving a vehicle and pole resulting in hazmat team and a road closure for several days. We lost our power and internet. Once our power was restored, we were still without DSL. After learning the neighbor's internet was working, I called our provider the following day and they said it would take another 6 days before they would come out and check on ours!
My business is internet based, so I rely on email and the internet to transact with my clients. Thankfully I was able to use my LOML's work unlimited wifi card on my laptop to download email and respond to clients. (Note that I would not have been able to use it on my engraving computer.)
While the power was out, I could have run the laser off the generator but chose to work on computer-related stuff instead.
So, the question for you who run a business or have a dedicated hobby, what would you do if there is a power or other utility outage for several days or longer? Do you have ways that you can still run your equipment?
If your software is subscription-based, can you get any work done in Corel or other software without internet access to log in to it? Will your cloud-based accounting software allow you to save copies of your invoices on you hard drive?