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<blockquote data-quote="Roadking Larry" data-source="post: 1329122" data-attributes="member: 2833"><p>I'd probably end up with quite a bit of OT.</p><p></p><p>Seriously though pretty unlikely scenario. </p><p>For <em>your</em> local line to be <strong>dead</strong> a whole string of very bad things would have to happen. At that point not being able to call for pizza would be the least of your worries.</p><p></p><p>For your local land line service to go dead for the entire area would require one or more of the following:</p><p></p><p>catastrophic damage to your local phone switch- fire, explosion, vandalism, EMP.</p><p></p><p>Extended loss of commercial power followed by either a failure of the back-up generator or exhaustion of fuel for generator followed by draining the reserve batteries. The offices I cover went for well over a week in some cases when we lost commercial AC during the last ice storm. </p><p></p><p>More likely an area would be isolated, meaning you could make local calls (your prefix or local prefixes) but couldn't call to the next town.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Plain old telephone service is pretty robust, cell service is a little more finicky. Rural areas served by repeatered service is also a little more vulnerable.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Roadking Larry, post: 1329122, member: 2833"] I'd probably end up with quite a bit of OT. Seriously though pretty unlikely scenario. For [I]your[/I] local line to be [B]dead[/B] a whole string of very bad things would have to happen. At that point not being able to call for pizza would be the least of your worries. For your local land line service to go dead for the entire area would require one or more of the following: catastrophic damage to your local phone switch- fire, explosion, vandalism, EMP. Extended loss of commercial power followed by either a failure of the back-up generator or exhaustion of fuel for generator followed by draining the reserve batteries. The offices I cover went for well over a week in some cases when we lost commercial AC during the last ice storm. More likely an area would be isolated, meaning you could make local calls (your prefix or local prefixes) but couldn't call to the next town. Plain old telephone service is pretty robust, cell service is a little more finicky. Rural areas served by repeatered service is also a little more vulnerable. [/QUOTE]
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