.... Get your head out of your ass and realize you're equally just as screwed with a standard landline in case of a MAJOR emergency (power outage probably more than 3 days, longer than the backup battery inside the wireless home phone can last) as you are wireless.

Seeing as you're in Oklahoma, you're main natural disaster concern should be tornados correct? Wouldn't high winds tear up those telephone lines rendering them useless IF you happen to be struck by a tornado??

I'm sure you'd be more worried about plucking your three brats out the rubble than whether or not your telephone works...