Well it's flooding down in Texas

[Ptah]

All the telephone lines are down.

[FarPoint]

1. How does flooding effect cell towers?

I am thinking most folks now have cell phones verses land lines these days...

[Ptah]

2. Mr. Buzzkill, is that you?

[VMA131Marine]

4. Cell towers need electrical power too

If the electricity is out then the cell tower is out unless they have some kind of backup power system.

[dutch777]

6. They generally have BU power via batteries and generators but in TX, who knows?

They seem to like living on the bleeding edge of technology when it comes to good utility planning in TX.

[FarPoint]

13. Now that makes sense...

[TexLaProgressive]

8. At the bottom of cell towers are huts or cabinets full of equipment

If the water is high enough, it would be really bad. More likely is the loss of commercial A/C and as their is no real telecommunication regulation in the RED state of Texas. For this reason the backup generators are non-existent or unmantained. No power and there is no service.

I worked in landlines and we had big diesel gen sets and gigantic battery plants to keep service up and running. As long as one wasn’t using a cordless phone, they would work even in power outages.

[FarPoint]

14. Oh....I had no clue!

Thank you...

[d_r]

3. the poles are down in Utah

[happybird]

5. Are dark clouds rollin in?

[Ptah]

12. bout to drive poor stevie ray insane

[Yonnie3]

7. And I've been tryin' to call my baby Lord and I can't get a single sound n/t

[TexLaProgressive]

9. Where are you?

I just looked at the current map. The only precip I see is a light shower around Amarillo. The rest of the state is all clear.

[Midnight Writer]

10. That gives me the blues.

[panader0]

11. 'Flood in Houston'---Savoy Brown

[Duppers]

15. 👏

[Duppers]

16. Used to listen to SRV day & night.

Just wow.

He was a favorite of my son's too, when he was taking guitar lessons.

So sorry Texas is having such flooding, yet again.