dacjohns
Our Frustrated Curmudgeon
We might have discussed this already in other threads but I thought I would give this subject its own thread.
This is something we realized (again) during the last ice storm. Many of us have cordless telephones and answering machines. When the power goes out so does your telephone if you are using a telephone system that requires electricity from your house.
In many areas the telephone system will keep working even when the power is out. You need to have an "old fashioned" telephone, one that just plugs into the telephone jack and doesn't need electricity from your house. Telephone lines have an electrical current for the telephone. Touch tone will still work unless you live in an area that hasn't caught up yet.
If your power goes out you will also be without internet unless you have a power supply for your computer. Wireless modems will also be useless.
If you are a radio operator like Kilo you know that back up power is necessary.
If all your communications go out then it will have to be face to face. That happened in Kentucky when people had to check on friends and neighbors.
This is something we realized (again) during the last ice storm. Many of us have cordless telephones and answering machines. When the power goes out so does your telephone if you are using a telephone system that requires electricity from your house.
In many areas the telephone system will keep working even when the power is out. You need to have an "old fashioned" telephone, one that just plugs into the telephone jack and doesn't need electricity from your house. Telephone lines have an electrical current for the telephone. Touch tone will still work unless you live in an area that hasn't caught up yet.
If your power goes out you will also be without internet unless you have a power supply for your computer. Wireless modems will also be useless.
If you are a radio operator like Kilo you know that back up power is necessary.
If all your communications go out then it will have to be face to face. That happened in Kentucky when people had to check on friends and neighbors.