[He laughs gently at her surprise, but is himself not as shocked. Though a man who liked the comforts of society, he was more than familiar with 'roughing it.']

I've only been here for eight months, cherie. Power was here when I dropped in, but it wasn't here back when our local history picks up...about five, six years ago. I'm not sure when it came online.

But yeah, it must have been very unpleasant to live here.]