"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> On 8/20/2014 4:21 PM, sf wrote:
>> On Wed, 20 Aug 2014 15:55:16 -0400, jmcquown >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 8/20/2014 3:35 PM, sf wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 20 Aug 2014 15:14:53 -0400, jmcquown >
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 8/20/2014 2:53 PM, Cheri wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have a wall hung phone in the kitchen, and portables throughout the
>>>>>> house, so if the power goes off the kitchen phone stays on.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheri
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a *corded* wall phone in the kitchen. It works when the power
>>>>> goes out; the cordless in the den doesn't. Late one afternoon last
>>>>> week
>>>>> when there was a mere *threat* of rain, the electricity went off. I
>>>>> used the corded phone to report the outage. Fortunately there aren't
>>>>> a
>>>>> lot of power outages where I live. Otherwise, I don't use that
>>>>> phone.
>>>>>
>>>> Put a battery in the base and it will have a backup power supply when
>>>> the electricity is out. It's the same idea that your alarm clock and
>>>> thermostat work on.
>>>>
>>> The cordless phones have batteries. What they don't have is electricity
>>> if power goes out.
>>>
>> I'm talking about the base, not the handset.
>>
> I guess my cordless phone isn't that fancy. There's no place for a backup
> battery in the base.
>
> Jill

Mine either.

Cheri