Telecom towers and their power

landyacht318 wrote:
I assume cell phone towers have generators, and battery backup for when the generators run out of gas.

Does anybody know if there is a standard on how long they have to be able to provide power for?

The infrastructure will probably last longer than the battery than the phone itself will.

Unless someone has planned ahead and has some sort of battery bank to recharge their device they only have a few hours at best, likely by the time the storm itself passed over they'd not have enough juice left to take or make very many 'I'm ok' calls.