> On Jan 16, 2018, at 4:02 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> ...
> Of course, when the power goes out during a winter storm, *everything*
> goes out, even if you have emergency backup power for your home. Said
> fiber-fed terminal has only about an hour of reserve power,
>
> So a mobile phone, lousy coverage and all, is still a necessity.
Which of course also goes out if the power fails, perhaps not as quickly as a
poorly constructed POTS system but it will. Various emergency sitatuations
(hurricanes etc.) have demonstrated this repeatedly.
paul
