On I-95 in Virginia for 10 hours

67Dart273 said

WOW. WOW!!! That is some serious looking stuff

"No cell service".........And here we have the big companies pushing 4G-5G and they cannot even provide decent coverage with what we have now. Up here in the PNW, you don't have to get far away from "somewhere" to lose cell coverage.

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Networks are built for a percentage of capacity and normal transit of people through. That many people, stationary, overwhelmed the network and probably combined with power outtage crushed anything that was available. Chances are if the network didn't lose power the users in the cell would have killed it