Power or the Internet?

Visualization of Internet routing paths
(original size: 10241024)
by The Opte Project
Licensed under CC BY 2.5

If you had to choose, would you choose to have power or the internet?

(In case you were wondering, we do have power and internet. Both went down for significant amounts of time during the latest winter storm. Thus the musing.)

It is funny. You can survive without power for quite some time. Maybe even a week or more. Even in the coldest of winter. Just hunker down by the fire and...