What happens when the power goes out?

Question

A couple months ago, our power went out. While it was down, we got a phone call from our neighbor. She said,"is your power out too?" we told her it was. "Then why is your phone working?" she asked.
We had to explain to a 40-year old lady about phones with cords.
(she had called us from her cell phone)

um, it was supposed to be funny. I just put a heading in question form on it.

Answer 1

when our lights go out the whole negihbor hood goes out in the street an yells to one another "is your lights out.?"

Answer 2

This happened at a camp I worked at. When the power went out, the phones that worked were the old ones (i.e. no cordless phones). I had never thought about those phones not working. Just goes to show, also have a corded phone plugged in, just in case.

Answer 3

The phones that are wired into the phone lines use the electricity on the phone lines that comes from generators and batteries that the phone companies have in their central office miles from your house.

The phones without cords have a radio transmitter and a radio receiver in their base unit. Those need power to work their radios. The phone messages still show up on your phone lines if you have wireless but the base units are dead and you can't get those messages.

Answer 4

When the power goes out for extended periods of time their is usually a big increase in business on the maternity wards nine months later.

Answer 5

when the powers goes out, the electrons stops passing through the wires and all the electrical items would stop functioning

Answer 6

Electrical things stop working and it gets dark inside.

Answer 7

To funny but concer

Answer 8

Odd.

Answer 9

all goes dark

Answer 10

electrons stop flowing