Originally Posted by Cat Herder:
Call 911 from your landline so they can find you faster (instant routing to the truck is awesome), use cell to call parents. 
Even if the phone is not connected, you can make an emergency call from any jack hooked to electricity.
That's awesome! I didn't know it would work. Unfortunately we haven't had a landline for years and actually had all the lines cut because 911 got 200 calls from our home once in the middle of the night and we didn't even own a land line phone. It turned out to be some sort of glitch but it was a crazy experience.