lose onto power lines.... 
>  > 
>  RH> Mine went out later that night, but only for about eight 
hours.
>  RH> What it did do was kill my internet/phone/TV for way too long. 
>  RH> Four days.  If Conned-cast were any better I'd have been on 
the
>  RH> restored phone so fast....
> 
> But as they weren't, you stayed with the devil you already have... 
Had
> an interesting thing happen about a week ago maybe... I got a text 
on my
> cell phone from the phone company telling me that they knew about 
my
> outage, and were working on it, and would let me know when it was
> restored... they actually sent the same text three times, within a
> fairly short period of time, two right together... I checked, I 
still
> had phone service, and still had the DSL... Maybe 5 hours later, I 
got a
> text from them saying that my service was restored... Never lost 
it,
> dunno why I got the texts, unless there was some sort of area 
outage
> that they thought covered my phone as well...

You've got me. I lost power here Thursday morning for about a minute.  
I wasn't home, but Mom was on the computer and of course everything 
went down.  I rebooted everything when I got home, but now she "wakes 
up" a little slower than usual.  A reboot ought to fix that again.