I've been using satellite for years now! Started out with a big 12 foot dish when I got fed up waiting for the cable company to finish installing cable in our new neighborhood.
Now I have the small dish from Dish Network. I love it and wouldn't switch back to cable if they gave it to me for free!
Never had a problem with storms, rain or snow. Only had 3 outages in the last 6 years, none lasting for more than 5 minutes.
Go for it, Satellite TV rocks
