T-Mobile USA customer care services cut during flooding in Northwest

| 12.06.2007 | 08:42:2410475 |

December 6 '07: Consumerist.com reported Monday that after severe flooding in the Pacific Northwest, the T-Mobile customer care center and certain business centers were were offline. In a press release, the company said the "Severe flooding stemming from a powerful storm has affected a facility in Western Washington that houses some T-Mobile business systems."

The late fall storms, SeattlePI.com reported, were responsible for at least five deaths while "major road closures from flooding and slides included many stretches of U.S. 101 along the coast and Olympic Peninsula and U.S. 12 east of Aberdeen."

The company said in the official statement that it was working to restore the "impacted systems" but that it wireless services was still functioning.