I actually said very few, and who you noted are among those very few. However, there are more that don’t really have the capacity to go live in a meaningful way, meaning they don’t have the staff, etc. to do it.

I completely agree with you that ATT should alert the media when something like this happens. I do believe that certain public officials were notified. RTC, as you recall, suggested that the Sheriff should notify the media when something like this happens. This went to the “someday” pile I think partly because we could not believe that it could happen a THIRD time in less than six months… Let’s put that on the agenda for our next RTC Board meeting.

Thanks! Gregg

I spoke with a notary yesterday who lost an assignment from outside of Humboldt because of the loss of internet. Multiply that by God-knows-how-many.

KGOE was making live announcements and KHSU also had kind of an announcement early in the afternoon. And KMUD was also working on the story. But none of these stations had any real information. So, while I applaud KHUM folks for their diligence, it’s not fair to say no other media would have the interest or capacity for live coverage.

I think at&t should be immediately forthcoming about an outage that affects so many people on such an immediate level. This would go a long way in allaying rumors, anxiety and confusion.

The problem we have here is that very few of our media outlets even have the ability (desire) to go live with these kinds of announcements and give significant airtime to covering events like these. I’m not sure that even if notification did go out, that too many of them would air information in a timely manner (or at all).

By way of full disclosure, I go to work at Lost Coast Communications (KHUM/KSLG/KWPT) in July.

I figured it wasn’t just my connection because I couldn’t connect even using the sbcglobal dial up numbers. Still, it was one of the few times I called them about an outage. I called twice and got some message that all the lines were busy and to call back later.

Maybe they could even set up some kind of zip code related auto response to phone calls? Something that, when they have an outage, they could intercept all calls from that area and give a recorded message that they’re aware of the outage and are working on it?