"Hulkster" wrote in message
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As a side note, how do TV stations manage to get mobile phone
calls/signals
to people in the storm when it is obvious that the system would be down?

Are they using satellite phones or something???


Could they use the audio of a satellite video up/down link on their remote
broadcast trucks?
Land-line and cell phone systems have back-up power generators and large
banks of batteries.
Calls are automatically rerouted around nodes that are out of service.