[jfengel]

Sounds like Florida buried its landline wires. Good choice.

I used to regularly lose landline service after storms (further north on the East Coast). For a while, I had both a landline and a cell phone, and found myself with the oddity of calling the phone company on my cell phone to tell them that my phone didn't work.

(I still technically have a land line. It comes free with the fiber optic data line. But there are no phones connected to it. At one point I discovered that it had been down for months, and didn't care.)