Wes,

You got that right. Perhaps you are even too kind to cable service.

After Hurricane Charley hit us head on last year we saw the following
outages.

Ordinary phone: 4 days (mostly underground)

Electric power: 7 days (extensive pole replacement and rewiring)

Cell phones: about 2 weeks (temporary towers brought in)

Cable service: one month (cable runs on same poles as electric service)

There was no flooding from Charley, but the winds were quite a bit
stronger than Katrina and Rita.

As soon as we got a temporary generator running we were able to watch
regular over-the-air analog TV.

73,
Gene
W4SZ

Wes Stewart wrote:

[big snip]

And after a natural disaster cable TV systems will be working about as
well as cell phones have. While the old analog TV and radio will keep
chugging along.