Can't please the mom-ster RE: cellphone costs

[Dina Lerret]

On 5/28/06, Jenny gmail <bamajenny at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

Yep, we've kept a couple of those old 'rotary' phones--as a kid, I
remember playing with the spinning dial and I kept mine, complete with
school stickers. ;-)  However, the city likes to pile cable TV, power,
and phone lines on one pole for several residences, which can
sometimes be problematic, and then rig the grids together.  For
example, a cable TV 'repairman' knocked out the phone line earlier
this year but power remained.  Other than the dead line, the most
obvious giveaway was my line sagging about 4-5ft lower than where it
should be. {g}

Love thy neighbor... bah!  I called out the phone repairman to fix
what their cable repairman did.

Dina