Why did Nedry's disabling of the security system affect the telephone lines? Also, even if the telephone lines were affected, I find it very strange that there was not an emergency phone located in the visitor's center or even the bunker where they could have called the mainland for help.
shareNot sure exactly why, now that I think of it... my theory is maybe the telephones were all running through one of a servers in the visitors center but because storm knocked the power out, the server lost power, and in turn the phones did too.
shareThis is just my supposition but we know that Nedry has designed the system to be operated minimally.
I am totally unappreciated in my time. We can run the whole park from this room with minimal staff for up to three days. You think that kind of automation is easy? Or cheap?It's possible that all the various systems were run through the same hub and if Nedry needed the server to do a big job on one system it would affect others.
Was it ever stated that Nedry knocked out the phones, or was it the storm?
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In the movie there's no real evidence to suggest it was Nedry that was the one who knocked out the phones so it appears to be the storm that did it.
On the other hand, in the book there's a part where they're trying to use the phones but the lines are all scrambled and they blame Nedry for it and Nedry says something like "i'm only using a few internal lines, but all your external lines should still work" or something like that, so in the book it appears to be plausible it's Nedry who's taken the phone lines down, but in the movie it appears to be just a factor that just adds to the overall drama.
just my two cents.