Verizon Drops 10,000 911 Calls During Blizzard

mschaffer noted a Bloomberg piece saying "US regulators said Verizon Communications Inc.'s networks may have dropped a 'truly alarming' number of wireless emergency calls during a snow storm last month, and asked the carrier to investigate." The article says 10,000 calls failed to connect during one blizzard. Can't wait to see what all those AT&T migrators think.

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Re:Que the "Can you hear me now" jokes

[h4rr4r]

How much stamina does it take to go get some blankets out of the closet? An old widow should certainly have gotten those out when the storm started.

If you don't have an alternative method of cooking with fuel for two weeks, the same amount of shelf stable food, and some basic sleeping bags and blankets you are asking for a miserable death next time the power fails in a large area.

Re:Que the "Can you hear me now" jokes

[bluefoxlucid]

Yes, but they're old and no longer useful. The overall impact is purely aesthetic. I mean I would hate to live in a world where we euthenize the elderly (that includes suddenly denying medical service and "letting nature take over," though I feel what we do now--best effort, but we'll call it faster on an old guy whose heart will probably fail completely in the next 2 days anyway-- is reasonable), but it's not really a huge emergency when lots and lots of old people die in the middle of a snowstorm. They're old, they should have figured shit out by now, if not then oh well.