[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Can't please the mom-ster RE: cellphone costs

[Heidi Tandy]

On Sun, 28 May 2006 9:14 am, Catlady (Rita Prince Winston) wrote:
>
> *blinks* I thought hurricanes would blow down the cell phone towers
> and make cell phones useless.

Cellphone towers here in Miami all stayed working through the 120 mph 
gusts of Wilma last October. Unlike trees, the towers are all sproingy, 
and bend with the wind and there's so  much redundancy of coverage that 
while we had some busy circuit situations, we were able to stay in 
pretty good contact through the storm, even despite the power failures 
to 90% of the area (the cell towers have battery backups to last 72 
hours and by that point the companies managed to get new batteries into 
place).