Well Johnny, I LIVE here.
This is not 2nd hand info.

Note, I didn't say their entire system(s) were down.

But, very certainly in this area, they were. VZW was
the only system that stayed up, here. The only one with
a gen, keeping things humming... Battery plants just don't
last for days, more like hours.



"John Navas" <spamfilter1@navasgroup.com> wrote in message news:u66r939pjpaobke07bb6l0450fo4qnot5k@4ax.com...
> On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:41:21 -0700, "Ness_net"
> <richard@nomore.damn.spam.nessnet.com> wrote in
> <-JqdnRvbn4Ei8gDbnZ2dnUVZ_vqpnZ2d@giganews.com>:
>
>>Just FYI, when Seattle had that spell of bad weather last winter,
>>it sure was nice to have that big 'ol gen at the VZW site nearby pumping
>>out the juice - and the site staying up the whole time. The GSM carriers
>>(and Sprint) were LONG off the air.
>
> Not according to people I know in that area.
>
> --
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