Peter, Go figure ..I was directly in Sandys path ...cable out 5 days, man
Scott ford www.identityforge.com Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand. - Chinese Proverb On Nov 3, 2012, at 12:55 PM, "Farley, Peter x23353" <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, that's true. Some New Yorkers though (myself included), did not lose > land line dial tone because our local CO was OK, and local calls still went > through. Of course most local and long distance traffic that went through > the huge Verizon multi-CO building at 140 West St. was not unavailable, but > strangely the old AT&T Bell System lines to the 201 area code from the > original 212 area code were still operating the whole time. I was able to > make calls to 201 during the first 2 weeks even though I couldn't make any > other long distance calls. > > Peter > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Ed Gould > Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2012 1:00 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Check out AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile Offer Statements On > Hurricane Netwo > > On Oct 31, 2012, at 2:30 PM, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: > >> But the CO's still have backup generators, usually well supplied >> and regularly tested, at least in my experience. I have *never* >> lost land-line service even in the area-wide blackouts of the past >> 4 decades here in the northeast US. I never lost it throughout >> this hurricane emergency either. >> >> Peter------------SNIP > > Peter: > > Back in 2001 (9/11) to be specific. Land lines were shut down due to > other big volume (at least in Chicago). > You could get a dial tone but thats about all. > > Ed > -- > > > This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the > addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If > the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized > representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any > dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have > received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail > and delete the message and any attachments from your system. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
