Glad to hear that you are safe in place . Reminds me of the old boy scout motto ‘Be Prepared’. You obviously are .
Goldie – when Irma went through last year ( just as a tropical storm by the time it got here ) we were without cell phone service or internet for a few days . Having the phone charged up would not have helped .
I am in CERT ( Community Emergency Response Team ) and had our emergency radio set up to communicate with the local FD . I wanted to contact someone in the fire department to report a tree down , blocking a major artery in the community , but no one was available to man the radio at the fire station , so even that was useless . Handheld CB worked within our CERT group to a limited extent .