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

[Jenny gmail]

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


On 5/28/06, Catlady (Rita Prince Winston) <catlady at wicca.net> wrote:

> *blinks* I thought hurricanes would blow down the cell phone towers
> and make cell phones useless.

As Heidi mentioned, cellphone access remains up longer than landlines.
 Newer construction and technology versus the wires needed to connect
each home.

One other thing about telephones and hurricanes. It is usually the POWER
rather than the telephone service that is actually out. If you have a phone
that has a power cord (for portable handset / caller id display, etc) then
if the power goes out, the phone is out. They are hard to find now, but if 
you
can get a basic phone, with no power cord, that only plugs into the 
telephone
outlet, then odds are, that phone will work through a hurricane. I have one
phone that is 20 years old, but it gets plugged in before every hurricane,
and I have never lost phone service. It is sometimes overloaded (circuits
busy), but the phone works.
Jenny