Their downlines became lifelines

SALT LAKE CITY —
When the eye of Hurricane Maria passed over the small town of Corozal, Puerto Rico, last September, ushering in a Category 5 storm with 175 mile per hour winds that swamped and devastated the entire island, the phones immediately started ringing in a Utah company in Sandy called 4Life.
The calls didn't come from Puerto Rico, of course, where the power lines were down (and some of them still are).
They came from everywhere else.
From Asia and Europe and South and Central Am