Colonial Airstream - After Hurricane Sandy

[Colonial Airstream]

Please visit our colonialairstream.com home page to access our Facebook page and YouTube Channel for updates on our current situation.

[CanoeStream]

Patrick, it is good to read that your facility and inventory stayed dry. Please extend our concern to your staff who might be having problems. Hope you get the lights on soon!

[Bruce B]

Here is the YouTube video link.
Happy to know you made it through!
Bruce

Colonial Airstream after Hurricane Sandy - YouTube

[ROBERT CROSS]

Very good news Patrick, our prayers go out to all those impacted by the Storm.

Bob

[CanoeStream]

Credit to Travel Bird for getting the word out in the Sandy thread. Glad so many are looking out for others.

monkeypants, urnmor & others under the hammer -- hope you made it through in reasonable shape. Sounds like noreen&sal fared okay.

[Colonial Airstream]

Colonial is open today but still no power, phone or Internet. We will close earlier for the safety of our employees and the curfew.

11/01/2012

[Protagonist]

Originally Posted by NeatAirstream

Colonial is open today but still no power, phone or Internet. We will close earlier for the safety of our employees and the curfew.

11/01/2012

Here in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, we found that in some cases, even though we could not make voice calls on our cell phones, we could still send text messages. You may want to try it and see. If it doesn't work, you haven't lost anything by trying.

Also, wireless broadband may work (slowly) even if voice doesn't, so if you've got a Verizon MiFi or similar, you may want to try that, as well.

Also, if you've got regular landline phone service (not VoIP, not piggybacked with cable TV or anything), look into getting a basic handset as a backup, with no caller ID, no voicemail, no need to plug in a power cord along with the phone cord. We also found that as long as the phone lines weren't physically down, basic calling on a landline still worked if we had old-time phones, since the old-style phones don't require an external power source.