AOL has actually done very well in the hurricanes here. I have always been able to get one of the dial in lines to work. In the 22 years I have been here I don't think my phone has ever really been out. Power has gone a few times and the cable is out once a month. That is one reason why I will never get cable based phone service. After Charlie we even lost NexTel fort a day but I still had dial tone on my landline.
I got online, just to tell folks I was OK but since the cable was out I ended up doing my regular online stuff to keep amused. We really only get one snowy channel over the air and they were "all storm all of the time". You can only watch so much of twisted up pan roof and flooded streets you have no intention of driving on.
