Fair enough -- I didn't realize you were speaking of only one tower.

On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:09:14 -0700, "Ness_net"
<richard@nomore.damn.spam.nessnet.com> wrote in
<qvKdneDazPHlPQDbnZ2dnUVZ_hadnZ2d@giganews.com>:

>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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