jart ames wrote:
wrote in message
ups.com...
|I like to have one telephone in my house that will work when the power
| goes out.
|
| GET A CELL PHONE NUMBSKULL



Our crews in New Orleans found that after the cell site batteries ran
down the only phones left working were the ones that were connected to
unflooded local exchanges. Not all cell sites have generators and their
battery reserves are only good for a day or two. All of the legacy bell
exchanges have engine alternator or generator sets.
--
Tom Horne