Phone lines?

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Hmmm.... some interesting thoughts.
If the power goes out, our land lines go out. We're supposed to have battery backup with the cable phones, but what is supposed to be and what is are two different things. So in an emergency we could never rely on the land lines -- they're dead.

Cable doesn't count as a true land line - IMHO. We have Ma Bell, and we have had phone service through ice storms and thunder storms; we have had phone service without electricity and/or cable service. Our neighbors have cable phone - they constantly have difficulties while we just chug along.