"My daughter tried to text message someone right after the explosion and her cell phone wouldn't work. It was the 4th quarter before cell phones started going off around us and the lady sitting next to us had six missed calls and none of us heard her cell phone go off. The girl behind us whose sister alerted her told us her sister tried to get her for over half an hour and couldn't get through.
Your guess is as good as mine about shutting down cell phones"
Actually, after this happened, I tried to call my son at another big college game here in Texas and his cell phone was not working either.neither was his roomates...???? Strange...
Just some beta particles hitting computers... Nothing strange about shutting down cells to protect from beta emissions or other x-ray penetrations...
Not so strange. They shut down the cell phone towers if there is a chance that a terror bombing situation is in progress so the terrorists can't detonate bombs via cell phone. Happened in NYC during the 9-11 attack too. Good strategy to help protect the rescue workers going in if they suspect more unexploded bombs in the vicinity.
I was at the Texas Tech game and tried to make a call. I got only "svc unavailable" from about 7:30 to about 8 p.m.
I tried to call my daughter in her sorority house when I went to pick her up before the game this afternoon and it didn't work then -- her phone didn't ring and I got her voice mail so I went in the house and there she was on the computer and had not used the cell phone. My son had the same thing happen about the same time when he called me from the Vista to say he would meet us at Gate 7. Yet a short time before I was relaying calls to him about scores I was hearing.