My experience with them is that the signal still goes out on either cable or satellite in strong storms, the difference is that with satellite it goes out when you are in the storm, with cable it goes out when their base station is in the storm, so it's kind of a wash on that.
Pretty satisfied with Dish. We have most of the tiers (500 channel package I believe), which includes several movie channels (TCM E&W, IFC, FoxMovie, Epix, and several others), all the significant news channels and their spin-offs, about all the cultural/historical stuff and kids programs, but not so much on the sports, plus due to some peculiarity a small extra monthly charge to get the local area broadcast channels. No DVR or HD, 2 set boxes, it's around $800 a year plus the monthly fee for the local channels. Where I live, there are only three options anyway: Dish, Direct, or DVD.