On Apr 28, 4:40*pm, RickH wrote:
Can anyone recommend a cordless phone system that will work during a
power failure? *I guess the base unit would have to have a battery as
well as the handsets. *I checked the Staples and OfficeMax big box
office supply stores, but all their phones fail in a power outage as
none have base-unit batteries.

Frankly I think it should be against the law to sell a cordless phone
that wont work in a power outage, but thats beside the point.

Has anyone seen a base-battery cordless phone system readily available
from the usual big box stores in the US?

Of more concern to me is that there doesn't seem to be any
commercially available alarm clock that works when the power is out.
Battery powered alarm clocks don't seem to have a loud enough alarm to
reliably get the job done, and most (all?) AC powered ones only back
up the timekeeping function with AC power loss, they won't actually
set off the alarm.

I do have a gas water heater, so so long as I actually wake up in the
morning, I can get ready for work without AC power...

nate