I just pulled up an article on it. Scary!!
Ds2 is in LA for work and says his hotel is having issues. Didn’t ask what that meant, but apparently he has a room so all is well.
Just went to pick up the treatment notes from this morning’s urgent care visit to take with us Monday to the orthopod. They left off completely that he also hit his head, but fortunately he seems to be ok (no stupider than he already was for doing this!) My DH is also dealing with 900 servers that aren’t working. the linux ones are ok but the microsoft azure ones are not. Some emails are also not working and our snail mail is absent.
As much of a major hassle that this is, gotta laugh at the conspiracy theorists who seem to want to push the “its really a cyber attack- they just don’t want to admit it” stuff. As Sigmund Freud reportedly said, “sometimes a cigar is just a cigar”.
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I feel bad for that person who was scheduled to have a colonoscopy this morning that got cancelled because of this.
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OMG. I would be LIVID.
Me too!!! How awful!! We had a time when we had an ice storm but thank heavens they cancelled mine before I started the prep!
Is this only affecting the west coast and south? I haven’t heard from either of my kids that this is a problem.
Issue here in the midwest too. I was touring a hospital this afternoon and they were having major issues. Airport impacted as well.
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It’s a global issue. My teams from Asia through here in North America have been working on resolving issues all day (and night in Asia).
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Ok…my daughter isn’t working. This outage affected most electronic medical records, including Epic which her hospital uses.
She is glad she isn’t working. She worked one shift with no internet…and they had to go old school. Handwritten orders, and couriers to bring things like X rays to the docs. And they had to hand write all their patient notes. She said it was awful.
So, our guest’s 3PM flight got cancelled and are now arriving into Portland at 11PM. We thought Delta would pay for a NY hotel (their layover) and fly them out in the AM. Guess we’ll have to sober up and go get them eight hours later than planned…
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Our timekeeping system at work didn’t work until late this afternoon. It is the last day of a pay period and there was some concern that the workers would not get paid for today or not paid at all if it wasn’t fixed to process payroll next week.
It came back up in the middle of the afternoon and I was able to enter the start times for everyone and the end times for the part timers that had already left.
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Don’t believe airlines will pay a penny if its not their fault.
Having worked on support for 24x7 apps (software edelivery), I shudder to think about the stress on the support teams.
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DH said his team has been on calls today for 14 hours straight. 900 servers were affected, and they have finally gotten some of the important ones back up. Add to it that DH broke his wrist early this morning and we spent much of the morning at the urgent care and sports medicine office (headed to the orthopedist Monday and will need surgery). What a day.
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Supposed to be on our way to St. John right now. United flat cancelled our flight due to the outage. Not all that many flights heading there, so alternative options are limited. Rescheduled for tomorrow but not overly confident that the ripple effects so prevalent in air travel won’t cause additional issues.
Re: the Southwest comments upthread. While the big boy airlines (United, American, Delta) were disrupted yesterday, my daughter was able to get home from a work trip in DC on Southwest no problem. Dulles was a mess for the other carriers, but Southwest was running as normal. Southwest is our go to for domestic flights, but unfortunately they don’t go to the Caribbean. If they did, my family would be in the air right now. Instead, we are losing a day of vacation (minimum) with no reimbursement for however many days lodging we are not able to use. Fingers crossed that United can figure it out.
I work for a Fortune 100. 2/3 of my team was down with access issues yesterday, as was the dealership I took my car to for service. This one has a far reach.
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Nine hours after our guest’s original flight, they landed at midnight, but we had to wait another hour for their luggage to arrive on the following flight. We all got to bed at 2AM. It’s going to be a very coffee morning. 
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You probably already know this, but SW does fly to some places in the Caribbean - at least Turks and Caicos and Grand Cayman.
We use SW often.
D and SIL were planning on having several friends here for the weekend (GD birthday party) and then going “up North”. So far several have had flights cancelled although 2 from New York have gotten here on separate flights. Not sure how many will get here over the weekend.
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Our guests were stranded in NY yesterday when their connection was cancelled and Delta’s systems apparently “lost” all of the ticket records for the passengers on that flight. They were told that their record locater number was not pulling anything up and there was no record of their purchase for their connecting flight to Portland. Of course, everyone in line had e-mail records of their tickets, but the rebooking was slow and painful.
They were finally given two options: One seat booked on a flight where the second seat was standby or Uber over to LaGuardia for guaranteed seats on a much later flight. They took the guarantee, but their luggage still went on an even later flight. At least they made it here, and we can start over today. They felt really bad for the family from their first leg who was flying to a wedding in Richmond today but couldn’t get anything booked for all of them until Sunday. They chose to go back home instead. 
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