Full power may not be restored until Wednesday of this week. This is exactly what happened in Ottawa, Canada during the ice storm this past winter. Power outages in Ottawa made it impossible to use cellphones. Same thing in Florida during the recent fires. Violent weather will even cause towers with atomic clocks to topple.
Microwave towers are simply another hazard to contend with during calamitous weather.
This was a pretty good week and weekend for adverse news to the electronics and telecom industry. The boy was fascinated with the lipstick size laser which radiated.a brilliant red light beam. His parents thought it was great fun to see how far the laser beam would travel. The mother pointed the laser out the closed train window. The red beam illuminated Route 66, the grass, and probably people in the autos.