Posted on 05/21/2013 5:41:56 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55
So an interesting little note here.
But hours before the storms rolled into Oklahoma, most cell phone service across the state, and specifically in Northeast Oklahoma was cut.
No one could make any calls. Texting worked but no calls.
Why would this happen BEFORE the storms?
I know the government has the ability to turn the service off I am sure.
Was this some sort of test to see if they could turn it off.. and during an emergency it was convenient?? So not as many people notice/blamed it on the storms.
Did anyone else out there experience this?
In any other time, a pRes_ _ent sabotaging an emergency
would be unthinkable, but today, with this traitor?
was it really cut or just overloaded?
That is the reason I am going back to landline.
I wouldn’t put it past the government.
Or it may not be something quite as sinister.. and more incompetence?
Thinking they’re helping emergency communications by cutting off “the peasants”
Did anyone else out there experience this?
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Must have if as you say the phones were disabled hours before the storm.
I’m not up to speed on this, but when a disaster occurs those in charge of response don’t want massive calling going on of people who are trying to get Aunt Susie on the phone to see if she’s ok or to just vent on how awful things are. Those who know the technical reasons why this causes a systems problem can speak to that.
But since this disaster was known to be headed for OK well before it got there I’m thinking this was preemptive.
People would’ve already started massive cell phone use just in the run up to the disaster that was coming.
Before one of the hurricanes a few years ago, the power company here cut the power. Perhaps to minimize fire damage or perhaps to keep the lines from sparking and doing more damage, I don’t know.
Cell phones went down too. No power, no cell phones. The towers only have backup for a few hours.
No, I don’t think overloaded.
I don’t think hours before the storm, the phones would be overloaded like that.
Maybe an hour before, during, or minutes before.. but no hours before.
And BTW, again not up to speed, but the systems problem massive cell phone use presents could just be system overload. I don’t know whether it was “cut”, or people overused and it wasn’t possible to get through. That’s why I said, someone with that technical knowledge should weigh in.
But I’m not surprised if it happened hours before the disaster acutally arrived. I heard reports hours ahead that this type of horrendous weather was headed for that area. So people knew it was coming. What you don’t know is the exact time and place and final intensity, but you know it’s going to be bad.
Perhaps it was a carrier issue? I was on my T-Mobile line before, during, and after time of impact.
But, my land lines were down. I was told by email that callers got a “network busy” signal.
I do remember on April 19, 1995 (Murrah Building) there was a crash of all phone lines because of the bandwidth consumed by Emergency workers.
Where were you when you experienced the outage? What period of time? We’re you stationary, or mobile? Were you on wire, or wireless?
I’m glad you “weathered” the storm.
is everything a government conspiracy?
Under this Administration.. I put nothing past em. Sorry.
It could have been a carrier issue.
Especially if your T-Mobile worked.
But I’ve heard LOTS of complaints.
My cell was working as I was telling my wife where to drive to get out of the way in Moore. It worked off and on after as towers were destroyed.
Geez.
Maybe we should all go back to short wave radios lol.
HAM RADIO
Buy one, get licensed. When the SHTF, they can’t regulate the electromagnetic spectrum. They might be able to temporarily block shortwave communications, but they can’t block radio universally.
ATT did start rerouting the affected towers and lines immediately after the tornado passed and opened up more frequencies and bandwidth for police and emergency responders. This suburb of Okc has a population of 100K and it struck right as schools were letting out. Obviously, the cell service was going to get overloaded, but I thought they did a great job.
The biggest problem was all of the people stuck on the roads in that area. Rescue workers could not get to the affected areas because of the traffic.
HAARP caused the storm. This is Obamas way of getting himself off the front page. Yes, this too was a government conspiracy.
Or maybe the cel towers were shut down because damage caused by the other tornadoes in the area.
Tighten up that tin foil.
Most likely the server farm which handles the cell requests powered down.
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