> https://www.firstpost.com/world/how-hurricane-sandy-forced-nyc-to-reconnect-with-pay-phones-513830.html https://www.firstpost.com/world/how-hurricane-sandy-fo

> https://www.firstpost.com/world/how-hurricane-sandy-forced-nyc-to-reconnect-with-pay-phones-513830.html https://www.firstpost.com/world/how-hurricane-sandy-forced-n... This was a decade ago! I wonder if cell service (and power infrastructure) is significantly more durable now than then? Or in the next crisis of that sort, will there be no way to call out? At one point after Sandy, when lower Manhattan was still dark, I could stand in a spot by the East River and send text messages using what I think was a signal from Brooklyn -- voice and data were not successful.