Hi Ken,
While I have a battery powered push button phone that my wife prefers, my
absolute emergency phone is this old AT&T desk phone with an amplified
handset. I used it a few days ago while replacing and charging the
batteries in our cordless phones.
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/AT_amp_T+Phone.jpg.html
Fuji F10 flash image
As a part of our fiber optic installation, we have a standby battery that
powers the phone system for several hours. Of course, standard cordless
phones are useless without electricity.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Norton" <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 11:53 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] SANDY SPARED US
> In the telecom industry, a few things happened worth note:
>
> 25% of the cell towers in the affected areas have been taken offline.
> Most of those are a result of power failures, fiber-optic cuts and
> other infrastructure failures though non-traditional carriers (cable
> tv companies). There are a number of destroyed towers and antennas,
> but most are OK. In comparison, very few land-line telephone systems
> have experienced any wide-spread failures other than the usual stuff
> of trees falling on aerial lines.
>
> In NYC, 75 Broad Street went off-line. That's one of the major carrier
> hotels in NYC. That was the flooded basement, fuel-pump to generator
> situation. Fortunately, 60 Hudson was not affected, nor the other two
> major carrier hotels. But losing 75 Broad Street would have given the
> NYSE fits had they been open. Unfortunately, there is quite a bit of a
> problem at that facility. When the power went down, it caused a lot of
> equipment to go brown when the batteries dropped. It'll be a few days
> before everything in that facility is back to normal. This particular
> power failure probably caused millions of dollars in equipment damage.
> Typically, carrier-grade stuff handles this well, but evidently, when
> it went down it didn't do so in a friendly way. A lot of this gear has
> run non-stop 24/7 for a decade or longer. When it gets shut down,
> there is no guarantee that it will ever start again. The generator was
> located on the 18th floor, but somehow, somebody forgot to have a
> means of preventing the fuel line from draining down and having a
> means of getting the fuel back up there. Oops.
>
> There were several significant fiber cuts, but with rare exception,
> the protect paths were not affected.
>
> Moral of the story? Keep your land-line phone through the incumbent
> telephone company. We charge more, but our service stays working.
> (That's where an ancient phone that doesn't need wall-power comes in).
>
> AG
>
>
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