Let me stop here for a minute and say that Verizon Wireless is the best Cell phone service there is. In all of this, they are the ONLY service that didn't go down. While I didn't have the net access feature at the time, we did have our cell phones thru this and no one on any other service had access to even their cell phones.
The City and County Workers all use AT&T and so does the Government I guess, because Beshear publically announced his frustrations with AT&T. 95% of this state I guess uses, or should I say USED, AT&T and not one had any means of communication with one another at ALL.
Verizon was the only one that withstood all of this. I went to the Verizon Store on Friday to buy a car charger..... funny I never owned one before... and that place was packed full of people switching over to Verizon so they could communicate with their friends and families.
The Kroger Chain was amazing... the morning after, those people opened their store and were helping people without even a minute's thought of monetary gain whatsoever. They were handing out the cold and freezer goods like crazy to help people.... WE could put it in coolers outside to keep it good, they couldn't. So rather than do what Wal-Mart did...... which was put all of theirs in a truck, take it to the dump and run over it to ruin any chances of anyone using it.... they were GIVING it away to help.
Kroger manually were rining up orders, all to help. We had a couple of small mom and pop places that were running their own stores on generators to help people with gas and kerosene.
The only ones that didn't stand up and help were Wal Mart and AT&T..... literally everyone else was right there for us all.. government included.
