Posted on 02/22/2024 4:10:42 AM PST by hardspunned
Maybe its a dry run to check on procedures.
Several weeks ago a transformer across the street blew up and we lost our power.
So I took a walk over to it and sure enough, there was a fried squirrel on the ground...LOL!
South Jersey here. Had to give a wake up call this morning and it went through, but we both have wifi. Not sure what will happen outside of its range. Have Verizon .
If it were sunspots wouldn’t it be more widespread? Wouldn’t sunspots also affect other type devices in addition to some phones?
Thinking the same thing. Solar Flares should also affect Canada at least.
Sunspots causing this AT&T outage is BS. They are the prime carriers for Verizon and TMobile. AT&T is the prime target and no one else. The naivety of this idea is incredible.
A CME could take out satellites…for a while. But they would take out more than ATT’s cellular network. Those kinds of solars storms are not really discriminating.
Test run
Ah, so it's Iran or North Korea? Remain clam.
Must be the CIA.
All good here in FL, my phone connects to multiple towers,
Can’t wait for the tin foil hat Q-tard conspiracy theories, lolololol
Nah, they’d blame Trump...
Texas coast near Corpus Christi ATT out since around midnight.
Have Hughes Net wifi so am online ok. Did get a child abduction alert on phone after midnight but nothing else.
Some in Florida are out. Not mine. Posting this with my AT&T iPhone.
On the other hand, maybe AT&T is updating its snooping programs.
So what would happen if we had a national communication outage as well as other utility outages caused by an enemy?
America is looking more and more vulnerable.
We’d be screwed but who cares? We need to hurry up and allocate a few billion dollars to ensure that scenario couldn’t possibly happen in Ukraine or Israel.
The NW Exurbs are insanely overpopulated.
I went NE.
But they are getting too many people, too.
Maybe the liberals are right about mass-extermination of 90% of the people.
I had to check:
Cell phones and handheld radios have relatively small antennas. If they are not connected to electrical power supplies during the electromagnetic pulse (EMP) they may not be affected, but they do rely on an intact infrastructure for communications.
That’s a very interesting point, and another to-do. I should put my radios in a Faraday box.
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