Worldwide IT outage - anyone affected?

I work in an Epic hospital. We are completely down.

My friend just posted in our group chat that during the initial conference call the announcement that Starbucks mobile orders were down brought the biggest gasp from everyone. 

I was at our bank a couple of days ago and their system was completely down. I wonder if that has anything to do with this.

My DS said his computer updated because he left it on overnight and seems to be fine. He did get a notice from someone that says he doesn't think people fully grasp how big this is. Around a billion computers are bricked worldwide, mostly corporate ones. Every affected computer will have to be rebooted in fail mode and have a driver manually removed. So IT department personnel will have to do this as he can't imagine most users doing this themselves.

Thankfully I have not been effected as have been able to order stuff online use My online bank etc ' & My online gaming has not been affected

My local Airport Gatwick has been described in local press as ' Absolute Bedlam 'tho

DH works for the federal government. They are shut down for the rest of the day.

 
Just in some areas though, not nation-wide. Federal operating status here in the DC area is normal.

I work in NY, and we just had major storm rip through here this week. Part of my job is to call local hotels and reserve rooms for power company crews so they all have a place to stay that come from out of state while they work to restore power. 

Usually not hard. Today was hard. REALLY HARD. Couldn't get through on some phone lines. When I did get through, they weren't able to look up how many rooms were available. Or couldn't book rooms. It was a major headache. I have a team of 5 and we all experienced it. I am exhausted anyway, and one place I called actually had rooms available and before I could give him my cc info, we got disconnected. So I called back and couldn't remember the name of the person I was speaking to. Normally I jot their name down, but didn't this time. The new person I was speaking with wasn't able to get into their system. So I couldn't reserve those rooms. Small stuff like that builds up to big stuff pretty fast.

The outages are getting restored though, so hopefully I won't have to come in tomorrow.

Not all Epic hospitals are down, it must be some other component.

Or else we have the shitty version and it's still running because it never updates like it should 🤣

We use EPIC and are not dead in the water by any means.  There are still a lot of issues going on but we have a lot of our applications and systems up and running. An extremely trying day for so many.  Hope all affected here are in recovery mode or did not have issues.

I am so sorry your flight is cancelled. If you are stuck in the airport area, you may already know this, but you're pretty close to a big mall area that has restaurants and the usual mall-area stores; the staff at Miyabi Sushi nearby are super nice. I hope you're out of there quickly, however. It's incredibly frustrating.

I almost always have cash, but I don't always take it into the store with me.

I was blissfully hiking in the mountains most of the day, so no concerns for me personally.

A lot of computers down in our hospital system, and our Epic was down for a few hours in the early morning. My department had enough computers running that we could do our job, and our surgery didn’t have to cancel any cases. The biggest issue for many of our employees, including my boss, was that our lobby Starbucks was also closed 😏.