On 09/15/2015 12:34 PM, wrote:

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Interesting.
I have never lost POTS service in 32 years of hurricanes and lesser
storms. It helps a lot that our phone system uses buried fiber up to
the head end on the street and buried copper for the last leg to the
house. It also makes DSL go pretty fast.

I might not have lost wired phone if the wires were underground here.
Instead they're overhead, and in the middle of the block around a lot of
trees.

I ditched Comcast after Charley when we were down for 2 1/2 weeks and
when Wilma hit, my DSL was only out for about an hour. The phone
itself kept going and I was able to do stuff online on dial up.
The satellite was useless during the actual storm but was back right
after. My antenna still got the local news just fine throughout the
whole storm.


I had wireless internet through Sprint. As for TV, antenna would work
but I had plenty of DVR recordings.

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