The AT&T Phone System Is Third World.

The first rain of the season and the main phone line goes dead. This was happening last year, and they told me that they had located and fixed this problem. The AT&T automated service essentially won't take a failure report unless I authorize a $85 charge if they decide it's my inside wiring, which it is not and never has been. I finally pushed the AT%T envelope and found a live human that agrees the line is bad, forwarded the calls from the main number to another line that still works and will have everything fixed by Monday.