Landlines AND Cell Service Out During PG&E Shutoff
It's 2019, the last year in a breakneck decade that saw advances in digital technology that disrupted everything in its path, with little time to close open loops and cauterize frayed systems, leaving many humans in a primitive state. Last December, Californians discovered when the power goes out, so do their backup analog landline communication lines , which was not the case in 2009. This October, we're discovering both a landline phone and a fully charged cell phone are useless during a power outage : When Stephanie Yamkovenko woke up in the Santa Cruz Mountains on Oct. 10, her power was out — and so was her cell phone service. It was in the midst of PG&E’s unprecedented power outages that cut electricity to millions of customers across Northern California. When her husband left for the office, she was alone at home ,where she sometimes works and couldn’t reach him. Her neighbor, who has an AT&T landline, couldn’t connect either. Neither could other neighbors with ...