Not wishing to tempt fate but up here in the Rockies we have very good cable internet service which only occasionally fails during extreme weather conditions i.e. 5 feet of snow, our house is just under 3 miles from the cable box. On the other hand the postal service is certainly not reliable and depends on which way the wind blows or how many horses are available.
It's not the broadband internet connection that's the problem. My broadband provider and email host has a major problem with their email servers. It has been going on for 2 weeks now with some service available, but many can't access any emails sent more than 2 weeks ago. Until this sort of thing happens we don't really think about the consequences putting all our data on on-line servers.
My wifes iMac has limited storage. Apple encouraged her to save everything in iCloud. Obviously if the internet connection goes down that isn't accessible and even worse should the iCloud servers fail in someway there is a potential for complete data loss. We prefer to keep our data in house on suitable hard drives with regular backups.
