We run into that challenge quite a lot, around here, in the winter. The combination of lots of tall trees, lots of wind and powerlines running through aforesaid makes for many power outages.
We usually end up doing the same thing as you; creating a "mobile hot spot" with one of the phones and connecting with a laptop. Even so, it gets tricky because we're on a peninsula and when the power drops EVERYthing goes dark, except the hospital and Safeway which have their own generators. You can always tell who the dedicated ones are because suddenly the Starbucks cafe at Safeway has 100 people with laptops in it!
Showing up matters. We each have to show up, within the paramaters that work for us.
=^..^=
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I was at the local library yesterday. They had both internet and power. So it was a way to get some stuff done, albeit not to the usual level.
We do what we have to so that we can forge ahead.
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