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Posted by Dyre Dan on Tue Nov 17 22:54:34 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. Regular phone service was never out completely, but saying it was "unaffected" may be an exaggeration. Mainly, I think the lines were just overloaded from everyone trying to call at the same time to find or to give someone information on what was happening. I remember picking up the phone and not getting a dial tone. But for whatever reason, I left the receiver off the hook, and when I came back a few minutes later, there was a dial tone.Pay phones then gave you a dial tone only after you inserted a dime. If someone inserted a dime in a pay phone and didn't get a dial tone, he would assume that the phone was not working. Maybe they were actually working the same way as the regular phones. |
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