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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.

It could have been a carrier issue.

Especially if your T-Mobile worked.

But I’ve heard LOTS of complaints.

Not true. My office is 3 miles from Moore and we had service before, during, and after. It got extremely spotty at times but I was able to text my wife. Our plant never lost internet either. We were all in the bunkers streaming the local coverage and you could have heard a pin drop.

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.