I have some clients on the west coast who are concerned that I may not be able to deliver jobs on time because of Hurricane Sandy. Now, Montreal is supposed to be spared most of the rain, but big winds are incoming. That already means power and communications outages that will get worse the closer Sandy gets to us.

It is very comforting that I can keep working through power outages because I am independent for power and that I will be able to deliver the jobs as long as the cellular network is up and running. I learned in Dawson that cellular internet is more reliable than the hard wired kind, one of the reasons being that it doesn’t require power.

Going back to ‘normal’ life would be very difficult now that I’ve experience what it is like to live mostly off the grid. If I were to go that route, then I would have to find housing that allows me a measure of grid independence.