Service is up here as of 30 mins ago, was down for 3hrs though. No idea the status elsewhere.
I figured a new thread for future big outages could be warranted, as it is basically a national disaster when it occurs and could be quite severe in some cases.
The confusing part is now Comcast is saying 2 Fibers were cut in 2 different parts of the country:
https://gizmodo.com/comcast-blames-nationwide-outage-on-fiber-cut-1827244074
"actually a series of fiber line cuts, one cut between New York and Chicago, the other between Ashburn and South Carolina. "
So how does this happen? Was it intentional to perform "upgrades"? Was it something more sinister? Fiber isn't something that can be easily cut afaik,.... it's usually beneath the soil running through piping, you can accidentally hit a fiber line during excavation with heavy equipment, but for it to happen 2x in different areas is suspicious.