very true, I had a $300/month highly reliable SDSL 1.5 mbps (T1-speed) as a backup line for years!
on another note, actually amazing somehow even your internet's still okay - so that reliability may certainly be worth the price. wasn't expecting you guys already to be back online! :)
As soon as the power came back online, so did all the basic services. We had emergency calls and landlines only. Back to 2mbps as soon as the power came back. although the house still had AC as I was enjoying my solar haha