Is Your Cell Phone Ready For The Next Snowpocalypse?

Remember last year when that massive blizzard hit the east coast? I do. My wife ended up trapped in Washington D.C. for 6 days while waiting for a flight out. It could have been worse though, at least the hotel she was staying at didn’t lose power, and she was able to keep in touch via her cell phone. But what if this had gone from bad to worse? What if the infrastructure hadn’t kept running, and the power had gone out? Her phone — a smartphone — would have been the first thing to go. With big ol’ screens and radios galore, it’s tough to keep these things away from the wall for too long. So what do you do to make sure you don’t lose communication? In a recent article on CNN , this is pretty much the situation: The power is out, and you have no way to charge your phone. There’s an active cell tower, but it’s too far away (or just…
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