Or the river fills the basement comm center with water? :-)
Chuck Norcutt
Ken Norton wrote:
> >I, like many others, refuse to lose the land line altogether, as we are
>> quite prone to power outages where I live. The land line keeps on
>> working unless things are incredibly ugly.....
>
> And they have to get REALLY ugly. Most of our stuff is now underground,
> which means that we're less likely to be affected by ice-storms and car
> wrecks, but one well placed back-hoe, mower (don't ask), or vandal with an
> axe can still wreck havoc.
>
> We're completely backed up power-wise. In our case, we can have a total
> loss of the power-grid statewide and still provide dialtone in all places
> and DSL in most. Where things get hairy is when it is a massive ice-storm
> that knocks out the power and we can't get the portable generators around to
> the non-generator sites before the batteries fade.
>
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