God bless you I understand about the smoke detectors ours just wouldn't stop working so I three it out the upstairs window hard on your ears ❤❤ Julia Lancaster pa
Shelter, food, water, electricity, and gas are essential for our existence. I'm so glad you're safe and hopefully, you'll get all your services back soon. We will never give up our landline even though we have cell phones. Sorry this is happening to you.
This is what I found online now that my internet is back: "The copper lines used for traditional landlines carry electricity over the wires, so as long as a phone is corded or charged it will work during a power outage. Landlines are separate from cellular and broadband networks and are not affected by their outages, making them a necessary backstop in rural areas."
What kind of phone do you have? iPhone 14 and later can do satellite texting for emergency services. Have to do it outside though so that won’t work during a hurricane but that’s one possibility.
I have an iphone 14. I was so flustered that first night, I really didn't look at it. Afterwards, I noticed that it said SOS so I assume that meant I could get an emergency call out.
@@SandyOver70 A 911 call would have been routed to another center in the central or costal part of *North Carolina (not the U.S, I’m tired). I work 911 in WNC, about 50 miles outside of Buncombe, and our lines were down for 5 days. Many centers are on fiber lines and they were damaged. Onslow County was taking our calls and relaying them to us over the radio. Landlines should provide an easier access call to 911 (which would still have been re routed) and other landlines. You have to have an older, traditional phone for this to work. Rotary or push button. Cordless phones and newer models will not work. Also, others might have said this already but just in case… your smoke alarms was not chirping because of the candles. It’s because the power is out. That happens sometimes. My alarms do it. One will beep and then the other follows soon after. It’s incredibly annoying. *edit to correct
@@SandyOver70 My father retired from the phone company 16 years ago (and died 13 years ago) and drove this into my head as a child. Keep a regular, no bells and whistles, phone at all times.
Enjoying what you are sending out..I’m in Los Angeles….will continue to follow you. Glad you and Steve are ok❤️🥰
Thanks so much
God bless you I understand about the smoke detectors ours just wouldn't stop working so I three it out the upstairs window hard on your ears ❤❤ Julia Lancaster pa
I am in Indiana. I hate this for all of you. I have been to Ashville and the surrounding areas many times. Praying things get better and they will.
Shelter, food, water, electricity, and gas are essential for our existence. I'm so glad you're safe and hopefully, you'll get all your services back soon. We will never give up our landline even though we have cell phones. Sorry this is happening to you.
Wow...just wow! I don't know what else to say other than BE SAFE!
This is really important information for everyone to consider. Do you still feel that getting a landline would be helpful?
This is what I found online now that my internet is back: "The copper lines used for traditional landlines carry electricity over the wires, so as long as a phone is corded or charged it will work during a power outage. Landlines are separate from cellular and broadband networks and are not affected by their outages, making them a necessary backstop in rural areas."
What kind of phone do you have? iPhone 14 and later can do satellite texting for emergency services. Have to do it outside though so that won’t work during a hurricane but that’s one possibility.
I have an iphone 14. I was so flustered that first night, I really didn't look at it. Afterwards, I noticed that it said SOS so I assume that meant I could get an emergency call out.
@@SandyOver70 A 911 call would have been routed to another center in the central or costal part of *North Carolina (not the U.S, I’m tired).
I work 911 in WNC, about 50 miles outside of Buncombe, and our lines were down for 5 days. Many centers are on fiber lines and they were damaged.
Onslow County was taking our calls and relaying them to us over the radio.
Landlines should provide an easier access call to 911 (which would still have been re routed) and other landlines.
You have to have an older, traditional phone for this to work.
Rotary or push button.
Cordless phones and newer models will not work.
Also, others might have said this already but just in case… your smoke alarms was not chirping because of the candles. It’s because the power is out. That happens sometimes. My alarms do it. One will beep and then the other follows soon after.
It’s incredibly annoying.
*edit to correct
@@SandyOver70 My father retired from the phone company 16 years ago (and died 13 years ago) and drove this into my head as a child.
Keep a regular, no bells and whistles, phone at all times.
@@pollysshore2539 Thanks for the information!
Sorry to inform you that copper line phones no longer exsist..all home phones are now IP phones
Thank God you are face
Thank you. I think you meant safe.
Are you all safe? X prayers🙏
Thank you. Everyone in our retirement community is safe. No one was injured. We did lose three houses.
We’re all living in oblivion, dependent on these devices.