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Posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Nov 17 13:21:44 2015, in response to Re: Today is fifty years since the big northeast blackout, posted by BrooklynBus on Tue Nov 17 13:16:17 2015. Since phones require electricity to work, the fact that they do work during the blackout implies some kind of backup power source at the exchange. That may have been absent or unavailable for the exchange serving the pay phones that Mitch is referring to. |