Having gone thru a Hurricane, I can tell you that everything can go out.
Phone and cable lines will be the first thing to go down in bad weather. (Wind, ice)
Cell phone towers can and will go out as well.
However, as I found out. You can't take your home phone a few miles down the road and use it. We didn't have any phones that worked, land line, Vonage (thru cable) and 4 cell phones. But if I drove 5 miles to the north my cell phone worked great. So twice a day we would drive up and get the messages and make the calls needed.
Now I still have Vonage and the cell phones, but Vonage will be going away soon.
I have 5 cell phones from Sprint for just over $100 a month, and we all have a phone no matter where we are.
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