Nobody in the neighborhood knew what was going on at first. Eventually I turned on the FM radio and within a couple minutes they had an update as to what was going on and when a fix was expected. It was some hours before service was restored.
Overall the feeling sucked because it hit in the middle of a busy day and there was this question of A) how long will this take, given that I'm working on something, and B) how big a deal is it that I can't get any notifications from servers or other services?
Since that time I picked up a bank of scanner radios and put some content I enjoy on the LAN. So it's less of an issue, and things feel way more plugged in when problems occur. But it's still annoying to think it might happen again for any number of reasons.