[vorage]

Can one of you techies out there explain to me why my cell phone suddenly started experiencing dropped calls today? We have AT&T and never had this problem before. We normally have good service and only have one bar today. Luckily we have a land line (with fresh batteries), but I'm wondering if this is storm related? I see an outage map online, but no real explanation. I was prepared for a power outage and having to limit calls to preserve battery life, but the storm isn't even here yet. Maxed out towers? Loss of a satellite? I've literally found myself shouting "can you hear me now?