Uses for a cell phone # 51

[winter_elf]

use it to find your car in the blackness of a cave of the underground parking garage when in the middle of a city wide/major/uber major blackout.

Wow it was dark. The stairways had emergency lighting, but NONE in the garage. Luckily I park close to the stairs, and know the garage well, but even so - yikes!

So yea, major city wide blackout. Like the entire county of SD is dark. Power is still off. I'm lucky in #1 - I filled my gas tank last night and #2 - my next door neighbor owns a generator, so there is laptop charging. And even if my cell phone isn't working, my USB modem is getting a tiny bit of service - so yay. To the minor words of yay. Also, I send in my AtlantisBigBang piece last night. I was hoping to work on another today..... but this power outage is expected to last more than a day - so probably not much chance at all of doing that :(

Comments

[sgamadison.livejournal.com]

What is the cause of the outage? Did you use the lighted screen from your phone to find your car? How'd you manage to post this? Hope this resolves soon!

[winter-elf.livejournal.com]

they don't know the cause. they keep saying 'disruption' of service. I have a flip phone, so I held it open and swung it in front of me, and walked very slowly to my car. barely little light, but it was like super,super,pitch black in the garage.

I have a USB laptop cellphone modem - so even though I've got 1 bar, I can get a slow connection. Like anyone who's currently using their phone web function. Which is probably why the regular phone service is not working. It's so strange, I can surf, people can use twitter/fb/email, but can't call anyone.

[sgamadison.livejournal.com]

Twitter is all abuzz this morning about it being an 'employee generated outage'! If that's true, someone is SO fired! :-0