If you can’t text at the moment, there’s a good reason why.

Verizon Wireless confirmed in a tweet there is an outage on the East Coast. The tweet said a “ton of customers” are being affected by the outage including some in Kansas.

The website Downdetector.com showed the biggest outage areas were in Washington, D.C., New York, Philadelphia and parts of North Carolina including Raleigh and Charlotte.

It’s unclear what may have caused the outage.