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Storm Causes AT&T Outage Across Midwest
dstates writes "AT&T left users across several Midwestern states without cellular phone service yesterday. The outage apparently resulted from a power failure at a Michigan switching center and spread to affect level3 Internet communications. The powerful windstorm also left 400,000 users without electricity. Interestingly, except for a few reports in Chicago and Indianapolis papers, AT&T has managed to keep this out of the mainstream media. Widespread communication failures also followed Hurricane Ike in Texas earlier this year. With the increasing trend for users to drop landlines and rely only on cell phones, this is becoming an emergency preparedness issue." Yes this included me. Still does. At least my office still has power — maybe we'll just camp here tonight. :)
Yeah? Well fuck you.
With jews, you lose. That's how THEY win. They WIN by making YOU lose. Let's lose the jews.
it's way user friendly, & the kode is freely available throughout the universe. not to mention, everything made by man fails. better days ahead. see you there?
Claim that BSD is a and piSs Cocktail.
..perhaps you should consider getting a friggin landline for when you're on call!
If you're an emergency doctor and you rely on mobile devices to get emergency calls you're an ass. A pager or mobile is fine in a hospital where theres always a backup PA system to call you , but its NOT fine when you're at home.
whatever insanity happens I will most likely get to hear a dialtone when I pick up.
if zombie movies have taught me anything it's that the first thing to go is exactly your precious dialtone. then you'll get your ass chewed on by some growling guy. good luck with that.
Stop Computers/Cars Analogies on S