As of 12:00 p.m. ET, DownDetector (a site that shares the same parent company as Mashable) shows that there have been over 100,000 reports of Verizon outages. Fifty-one percent say that the issue involves their mobile phone, 35 percent say they're not getting any signals, and 14 percent say they're experiencing a total blackout.

North Carolina residents struggling to contact their families in the wake of Hurricane Helene aren't the only Americans experiencing cell service outages this week. On Sept. 30, Verizon customers began reporting service outages in major cities like New York,

Tens of thousands of people across the United States reported problems with Verizon Monday, with many unable to make or receive calls on the wireless network.