If you do a quick search on Google, folks who suffered through Katrina and the NYC blackout of 2003 said their cell phones worked when POTS didn't: »forums.cnet.com/5208-10152_102-0···D=264693
Don't even need a hurricane. A sufficiently vigorous thunderstorm, can lead to the same situation (and has, for me). We get plenty of violent thunderstorms around here, each year. -- The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. -- Bertrand Russell
