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David H's avatar

Tom, I am looking at AT&T's outage map for the LA area. There is a large cluster of outages in So Cal, from Thousand Oaks down to Mexico border. Landlines are a small cluster in the middle, Internet is wide spread. Landline info says "cable damage" or similar. Time here is half past midnight in Central Time.

footnote: I clicked on several marker dots to see what they said for the "landline" outages -- time to repair varied with each one, from "unknown", to tomorrow, and one said January (some smart@$$ no doubt).

Here is the site I used: https://att.com/outages/

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TCinLA's avatar

Thanks much for this Dave. Always good to know just what is going on. Encino as right in the middle of all that, but we have been fine here all day (as of 3:30 pm PST).

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Fay Reid's avatar

The eve is a bad time to have any kind of unsolvable problem. I used to have problems with ATT's Uverse, so I dropped them. Good luck, Tom. Don't fret, we can wait until Friday.

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TCinLA's avatar

So far it appears that four resets have finally "taken." Which leads me to think it's a system problem, not a 'me" problem.

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Fay Reid's avatar

YaY! Good news

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Gigi's avatar

Relax with the cats and people that make you happy. Ignore anything political, ugly or orange. ❤️❤️❤️ Happy Holidays.

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Linda A's avatar

Thank you for the heads-up, TC. And happy Thanksgiving. I hope it's been resolved.

We woke up yesterday - baking day - to no water. Big water main break.

Fixed by 1 pm. Oh how we rely on infrastructure.

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Pat Ebervein's avatar

Happy Thanksgiving to you - thankful for your writing and insight here.

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Ransom Rideout's avatar

We have blinkin' ATT too. Right in the middle of something important from Lawrence O'Donell..."No Internet Connection" ....GAAA!!! All the shit will be waiting for you. Take a nice walk in Sepulveda Basin.

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TCinLA's avatar

Nah, I don't want to meet "the residents" in the dark.

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Susan Burgess's avatar

For what it’s worth: I’ve been an AT&T customer for many years off and on. They’ve always been unsatisfactory. I stay with them because I’m deaf and there is a corporate store near me. I can go down there and talk to them in person and read their lips when things go wrong. The last three times I visited them I got a distinct gangster vibe from two different offices. It’s as though the employees are taking advantage of customers like me who are not tech savvy. They show me no professional helpfulness.

Last time about a month ago as I was adding a service for a new device the woman who had been helping me left the room and another employee took her place with no explanation. At one point during that part of the transaction I had to type in my code to unlock my device and put in my password. While doing this I happened to turn slightly and there was a man standing very close behind me my left shoulder — almost touching me. I didn’t hear him approach because of the deafness. He was in a perfect position to see what I was typing in. The hairs on the back of my neck stood up. I left and immediately changed my info.

It’s very disturbing the way these people who work for AT&T and other service providers behave. It’s been this way for a few years at least in my area of San Diego.

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Judith Matlock's avatar

Have a pleasant Thanksgiving. I'm thankful that you and so many others are still in the good fight.

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Jeanne Stevens's avatar

Do not despair. We will be here when you can return. Enjoy the peacefulness with the cats.

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Arthur Viens's avatar

Tom, here's another on Substack that is worth following.

Knowing you, you are already following her.

She reminds me of you: https://jojofromjerz.substack.com/

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TCinLA's avatar

Thanks!

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EZTejas123's avatar

I never used U-Verse. They seemed to have been unable to get over being early adopter. Their dependability and service never caught up. Always stayed with cable, now Frontier fiber. And always kept my cell service separate.

Make a turkey sandwich, and have another drink. It’s probably great weather out there.

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TCinLA's avatar

Well, probably compared to you guys, yeah. Had a cold snap over the past weekend, got down to the upper 60s during the day and the upper 40s at night. Now fall is back with mid-70s days and clear, upper 50s nights, forecast to remain that way the next 10 days.

There's a reason why SCalif was settled by refugees from midwestern winters. :-)

One of my favorite lines from a show nobody watched about people "making it" here: "I leaned back and looked over at the girls playing beach volleyball, then up at the sun, and thought to myself, 'It's February...'"

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EZTejas123's avatar

It’s actually not that much colder in Dallas. Except the friggin’ 30mph wind. 30 out of the south, then when the front comes thru 30mph out of the north.

I love that quote. And identify 100%. I went to USC in the early 70’s. (Yeah, I know. University of Spoiled Children, but I drive a pinto not a 911) Majored in surf, 2-man Vball, and on the side, PoliSci.

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EZTejas123's avatar

June was always the coldest…….waters still cold and fog rolls in

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TCinLA's avatar

Over on that side of the hill, yep.

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EZTejas123's avatar

That’s true. You go a couple miles and it completely different. You in the Valley/

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EZTejas123's avatar

That was a ? not a /

(iPad one finger typer)

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Jim Holley's avatar

Happy Thanksgiving anyway. The cats won’t mind, at least.

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