Doc, it wasn't that. Someone cut a very large trunk line in the area. Then we had over 3 inches of rain that soaked the old cable with exposed wires. I was really gettin PO'ed everytime I called the repair line to check on the progress and told it would be another 2 days (seemed to be their pat answer for everything). I finally saw a repairman in the neighborhood yesterday. He said the line was an old paper coated line and they had to replace a very large section and he was checking the neighborhood lines to make sure that had the right lines reconnected. After I talked to him, I had in dial tone within 20 minutes. Took them 10 days to fix.