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Posted by John Gray on May 14, 2006, 1:42 pm
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> wrote:
>
>> This was a regular POTS line from Verizon.
>> So much for their claims.
>
> It's interesting how that apparently varies by region. In New York
> City, voice circuits were fully functional during the 1965, 1977 and
> 2003 blackouts.
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> A_C
>
Normally, that was the case here when we had local outages. Evidently
the large scale outage left Verizon without Edison power and the backup
power was offline. When Edison came back online, somehow power wasn't
restored to Verizon's POTS circuits.
Of course, systems being in poor repair and/or offline was what caused
the problems at First Energy near Cleveland, Ohio which ultimately
brought down the entire Northeast power grid.
Unless we are beating drums, I guess any modern communications are
vulnerable at one point or another. Even smoke signals can be at the
whim of heavy winds.<G>
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