Luke-Jr wrote:
If you can dial 911, why can't you say where you are? :\
Not everyone who dials 911 is at liberty to make noise.
If you dial 911 and hang up. You'll note the nice police offers that drive by.
Get a UPS...
not everyone can afford one, or replacing the battery every 2 years
And I'm sure the POTS batteries will never die when the power goes out either...
Not when it's running off a generator.
Each state's Public Utilities Commission requires the local telco's to provide phone service during power outages.
That ice storm a few years back knocked out the power for two days, knocking out cable service too (one battery-powered TV). Phone lines worked fine for both days, allowing me to call the electric and cable companies for information.
Ouch... two days is much too long for power to be out :( What did people with electric heating do?
Two days may be too long for many of the elderly and infirm.
Our power was out for a week. Even people with gas heating often find that their thermostats are electric...
We moved in with friends who had power for the week.
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On Friday 18 November 2005 12:36, Garrett Goebel wrote:
Luke-Jr wrote:
Get a UPS...
not everyone can afford one, or replacing the battery every 2 years
VoIP incl. a cheap UPS lasting 2 years is probably cheaper than your average POTS service.
And I'm sure the POTS batteries will never die when the power goes out either...
Not when it's running off a generator.
Never seen that... what's the generator running off of?
Each state's Public Utilities Commission requires the local telco's to provide phone service during power outages.
For a limited period of time. Not sure what it is, but I don't think it's more than a few days tops.
That ice storm a few years back knocked out the power for two days, knocking out cable service too (one battery-powered TV). Phone lines worked fine for both days, allowing me to call the electric and cable companies for information.
Ouch... two days is much too long for power to be out :( What did people with electric heating do?
Two days may be too long for many of the elderly and infirm.
Or computer-dependent? =p
Our power was out for a week. Even people with gas heating often find that their thermostats are electric...
Yet another reason no home should be without a UPS?
We moved in with friends who had power for the week.
Works, I guess, unless the outage is so wide that there's not enough friends to move in with... and if the outage is small, there's not much excuse for it to be out for days, let alone weeks.
--- Garrett Goebel garrett@scriptpro.com wrote:
Luke-Jr wrote:
And I'm sure the POTS batteries will never die when the power goes out either...
Not when it's running off a generator.
Each state's Public Utilities Commission requires the local telco's to provide phone service during power outages.
That explains why it worked so well for two days.
That ice storm a few years back knocked out the power for two days, knocking out cable service too (one battery-powered TV). Phone lines worked fine for both days, allowing me to call the electric and cable companies for
information.
Ouch... two days is much too long for power to be out :( What did people with electric heating do?
Two days may be too long for many of the elderly and infirm.
Our power was out for a week. Even people with gas heating often find that their thermostats are electric...
Not that it matters with an electric thermostat already off from the power outage, but gas heating also requires electric fans to push the air throughout the house. So even if you managed to bypass the thermostat, you'd still be out of luck.
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