Survey: How did the Verizon outage affect you?

| 16 Jan 2026 | 04:37

Verizon phones entered SOS mode for approximately 10 hours on Wednesday, Jan. 14. A humorous Facebook post from the Orange County Sheriff’s PBA implied that local 911 centers were receiving nonemergency calls throughout the outage.

Whether you missed an important call or got stranded because you lost GPS signal mid-travel, we want to hear from you. If you were affected by the outage, please fill out the simple form below to share your experience, or email comm.engage@strausnews.com

We’ll be publishing responses in an upcoming edition of the newspaper.