In most disaster areas, amateur radio is the main form of communications between relief agencies and the people in the field. If the cell towers were priority, they would be overloaded and useless, IF they still had communication to the outside world. Power priorities should be hospitals, public service, and command centers first, everything else as they can get to it.

Joe
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No trees were harmed as a result of this posting; however, many electrons were severely inconvenienced.