C J Campbell wrote:

Our hotel's office in Florida says that they have not been
able to contact the hotel at all; even cellular phones are not working.

Cellular phone towers are connected to the ground lines. When the trunk network is
damaged, they bite the dust just like any other phone. Satellite phones should still
be working over there.

George Patterson
If a man gets into a fight 3,000 miles away from home, he *had* to have
been looking for it.