It’s Raining FAIL. Widespread AT&T Outages Reported In San Francisco.

Today started out like any other, which is to say, the AT&T connection on my cellphone was somewhat working, depending on where I was positioned in my apartment. It sucks , but things like this are a fact of life that AT&T customers have grown accustomed to in cities like San Francisco and New York. But this afternoon I started getting an abnormal number of messages from friends over email, IM, and Twitter because they apparently couldn't text or call me. I tried to use my phone, and sure enough, no dice. Calls are working sporadically, but the AT&T data network in San Francisco seems to be completely borked right now. There is obviously a lot of talk on Twitter about this right now. Everyone, it seems, has the same problem, "Could not activate cellular data network." I should mention that it's raining in San Fracisco today, so perhaps that's to blame. I know how hard it is for AT&T to be reliable on a regular day, so rain is apparently completely out of the question.