The morning a power outage exposed my overreliance on cloud storage

I was finalizing a report when a neighborhood blackout cut my internet and wiped my unsaved work from the collaborative document. Frustratingly, I realized I had disabled auto-save features for speed, assuming constant connectivity was a given. This forced me to reconstruct hours of work from memory, a tedious and avoidable task. My epiphany was that remote work requires redundancy plans for the most mundane disruptions. Now, I manually save local copies at regular intervals, no matter how seamless the cloud service seems.