Seacoastonline.com, January 24, 2008
By Sean Bourbeau

People that were trapped in their homes during the floods last year had power and cable TV, but they didn't have land-line phone service and cell phone service was spotty at best.

Sure, there were images on the floods on Channel 7 and Channel 9, but they weren't able to give people the type of information they needed if they wanted to venture out of their house.

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