Originally Posted by sailsablazin
We will never get rid of our land line... We live in the woods and lose power often and the land line is the only phone that works here when there is no power. Also, in case you dial 911--the land line is the phone that the officials can trace to locate your position. Not use if they have the location finder on a cell phone.
Cell phones can be traced; they have a built in GPS tracker in them. With Sprint if my kids were still young I could go online and see where they were at any given time. I've never heard of cell phones being affected by power outages unless it can knock out the towers or something like in a tornado. A few years ago when all of the electric polls in my neighborhood was knocked out from a hurricane my cell phone was my only way to communicate.