>>> Remember, when your computer is off, or there is a power failure, your
>>> telephone system will be down.
>>> I rode out two hurricanes with no electricity, but my telephones (both
>>> lines) never flicked.
I forgot: my roadrunner service was DOWN when I had power during both
hurricanes, they even issued me a tinny refund without me asking.
> During the First hurricane, my phone went down several hours before I
> lost power and
> stayed down a day after my power came back up.
> There is a green box about a mile from me that a lot of phone lines go
> into and get multiplexed into one. It has it's own power meter.
> When it loses power a lot of phones go down.
> It does have back up batteries, but they only last a few hours.
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73 (= Best Regards) de: Ron ka4inm@tampabay.rr.com
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