Andrew says Comcast ain't too cool for school

I love to play video games and the best part is that I get to play online. So that means I have to have a pretty good internet connection to play all the time. Well Comcast doesn't think so, they think that try can control when I play and what I play by throttling the hell outa me! I swear I went over the limit once and I couldn't even connect to the Internet! I have to do homework in my computer and I can't do it without an Internet connection. I had streamed so many movies played so many games that Comcast deemed me thottleable and left me for dead! I failed my math class and had to take a god damn math lab next semester and be put in a class with a bunch of loud and rude idiots!

-Andrew

Barbi lives through a Comcastic Nightmare

Comcast has been a nightmare since before my services started. First, I signed up online and my appointment kept getting canceled and nobody could tell me why. Finally it was determined that the previous tenant had a past due balance and I had to bring my lease and drivers licence to the local office to receive services. They also refused to honor the bundle I was offered online so at this time I decided to just sign up for internet.

After living a month without TV I decided to add cable.  Once again my install appointment was canceled and then rescheduled for two weeks out. I was so mad I opted for a self install kit.

It took four trips to my local Comcast office before I actually had all the pieces of my kit.

My bill comes in October and I am charged $10 to install cable as well as $20 to install phone that I didn't have send $10 to install internet that I already had installed in August. I called and the agent told me with taxes and fees I had a $68 credit coming.

Come December I still hadn't seen the credit so I call again. The agent I spoke with told me not only would my credit be applied but he had an amazing package to offer me to reduce my rates, add phone for free and as a special introductory rate offer me the month of January free.

January comes and I have a bill for $573!!! I call and am told the previous agent actually UPGRADED my package from $89.99 per month to $250 per month!!! There is no such offer as 30 days free but the agent credited my account $150 for the upgraded services that I never requested and told me he could see a $168 credit pending on my account. I informed Comcast I will not pay anything until I have an accurate bill in writing.

In February I start receiving collection calls before I even receive my bill, which was now $543. After an hour on the phone with them, they say the $168 credit I was told I had does not exist and I got my $68 in November. I never saw the $68 credit reflected on my bill.

I am now cancelling all my Comcast services and making a complaint with the BBB. I will be disputing all charges when they take me to collections.

Thank you for listening.

Barbi

Where there's no competition, there is no choice, and no F'ing deals, here's my voice

Greetings my readers, I'm sorry I left you so long since my last post. I know I say that often but I always want to fill this blog with fresh ideas and words. The word of the day? Competition. Competition is where you have to give your all in order to win, just ask wild animals who don't have welfare checks, they battle like motherfuckers. Humans, we don't have competition, and we shit on this planet like comcast is shitting on most of us.

Now where am I going with this? Well I live in an area that is dominated by comcast, yet in only select neighborhoods there are options for Century Link 1000mbs service and a few others at the same speed, giga bits, not mega, giga. So in the areas where you can only get comcast the top speeds available are between 50 and 100mbs for 70 to 100 bucks. In the select neighborhoods that have Centruy Link or another alternative GIGABIT service available for around 100 a month, comcast also offers GIGABIT service. So if you are in the area's around here without competition you get internet at basically a 10 to 20x speed limitation at the same price?  Hmmmm.

So comcast (notice I mention them in lowercase each time, yep FUCK YOU comcast, or should I say comcast, (I'd type it even smaller but the pixels on my screen aren't fucking small enough) will offer you what the competitors will if there is competition in that neighborhood, but otherwise they ram it home in your ass with such a sub par offering buying triple a batteries at the fucking local quickie mart looks like a steal. 6 bucks for 4 triple a's, fuck, but anyways...

If you are stuck with no Competition in your area, than comcast jerks you off with a sandpaper glove and I wish the Government would do something about this nonsense. Check out the united states of monopolistic internet;

I love you readers, 

-Admin

Worst Customer Service in America!!!

2015 worst customer service polls are now out, and guess who's number 1? Is it taco bell? Nope, they might give customers a 92% chance of the shits, but they deliver the beefy melty cheesy goodness, every time. You obviously don't need to guess, its.... Comcast!

Yeeehaaaaah! 28.3% of Comcast customers consider their customer service poor, while 54.4% consider their customer service experiences negative. That's pretty awesome! Does this come as a surprise to me, the author of this blog? To you, the consumers of the blog that share the same feelings, or to you comcast cares1, who no longer try to save face on this site and don't leave comments like you used to? I miss you comcast cares1, cmon, comment again like the old days please?

So now we can safely say in 2015;

COMCAST HAS THE SHITTIEST CUSTOMER SERVICE IN THE USA!!!

You can read the original story from yahoo right here, its a good read, so check it out;
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/customer-hall-shame-151103637.html

But hey Comcast, at least you can claim you are only roughly 7% shittier than the second shittiest right! That's the moto of a monopoly, they have no other options, so "fuck em"!

It's been a pleasure as usual =)
-Admin

"Cough" or "Sneeze" blamed for comcast driver smashing through a mailbox and into his house

So this dude in Ross Township of Pennsylvania is watching jeopardy on tv, likely on comcast's network when a comcast van plows through his neighbors mailbox and then into his house. In other news Alex Trebek immediately switches to Fios.

Comcast getting down in Phily

This fall, here in downtown Philadelphia, I was out for a leisurely Bourgeoise stroll through the city with my girlfriend. Walking along a central, upscale street by the park we turned the corner to see countless police and emergency vehicles blocking the street. This was a Saturday afternoon on a beautiful  late summer day. Hordes of people were out at this particular shopping district. Parked at the intersection of the wealthiest neighborhood in the city was the absolutely largest crane I have ever seen. This crane is of the scale where a meager "normal" crane is on-site to construct the "Mamma" crane. It's big, big.  Dozens of people are scattered around staring up at the sky. Dozens of police and emergency peoples were scattered around. Workers galore. Hard hats and the works for a construction project of the commercial kind.

When we asked a cop what the hell this thing was doing at this location, in the middle of the streets, on a beautiful Saturday, the answer was that windows were being replaced in a penthouse condo. We watched crates of glass windows being raised into the sky.

Further inquiry revealed that this was the residence of the billionaire CEO of Comcast and he did not like the views afforded in the standard Penthouse.

This crane window thing went on for the afternoon with one crane operator confiding to us that this whole scenario was costing $1,000,000. A million bucks with staff, insurance, install, etc,etc.

Penthouse windows aside, because a billionaire can spend his bucks however he/she chooses, down here in serf land I write this as my girlfriend is back on the phone for the fifth time wondering why our service continues being cut off -even though we have a nearly $300 credit!!!

Over 'n Out!

comcast asks for your last 4 social security digits on a page without ssl

Only the last 4?
Well sure, they say some can predict them anyways. But who really wants to increase their chances of identity theft? I don't. It seems comcast did oopsies and doesn't mind if your social is compromised, until they do. This should be encrypted.

http://www.xfinity.com/localize/localizetnssn.aspx?mode=PASMODE&CCT

She thought she was cancelling her comcast account eh?

Comcast Seeks Mentally Handicapped status‏

This fall, here in downtown Philadelphia, I was out for a leisurely Bourgeoise stroll through the city with my girlfriend. Walking along a central, upscale street by the park we turned the corner to see countless police and emergency vehicles blocking the street. This was a Saturday afternoon on a beautiful  late summer day. Hordes of people were out at this particular shopping district. Parked at the intersection of the wealthiest neighborhood in the city was the absolutely largest crane I have ever seen. This crane is of the scale where a meager "normal" crane is on-site to construct the "Mamma" crane. It's big, big.  Dozens of people are scattered around staring up at the sky. Dozens of police and emergency peoples were scattered around. Workers galore. Hard hats and the Here's my CumCrust horror story.

Background: I've been a faithful CumCrust internet subscriber for over 15 years. I've had Blast 105 for the last 5 or so, so I'm not just buying the cheapest service they offer.

I moved at the start of last month to a brand new apartment in which I was the first tenant. This is really, really simple stuff; they need to take the old address' network node ID and dis-associate it with my modem and replace it with the node ID of my new address. A toddler could do it.

Three weeks before my move date, I used the XfuckMeUp service relocation web page to set up the move. I was very careful to specify both my old and new addresses. I completed all the steps and the next day, someone called me to set up the installation appointment. So far so good, right?

The day I move in, one of the first things I do is plug in my modem and router. Lo and behold, I'm connected! Yeah! Same IP address as I had at my last address, not that it really mattered. Speed test showed I was getting good bandwidth. So when the tech called to say he was about to arrive, I thought I'd do the decent thing and tell him that everything was working great and there was nothing for him to do. This was a mistake that would prove impossible to un-fuck.

Nine days later, no service. Nothing. I can get an IP address and ping internet hosts, but no traffic of any sort will go through. So I call, and I'm told that there are no services set up at my new address, and my old account has been closed. What? For fuck's sake, I'm trying to continue to give you money, and you arbitrarily dump me by the side of the road? I explain over and over that I've been connected for the last 9 days, and the little sales twit replies every time with "No you weren't." Clearly they have no handle at all on their physical infrastructure. He wants to charge me a $250 installation fee because they need to "verify that the line can deliver your guaranteed speed." I remind him that they don't guarantee speeds, so you'll have to try that bullshit excuse on somebody else; and I've already tested the bandwidth and it's working fine. Just flip the fucking switch back on, okay? Nope, the little nitwit says he can't do that. He tries to sell me some other package that he claims won't need an installation visit. I tell him to cram it and just give me what I had at my previous address. He insists that they have to set up an installation, and that I can plead my case with the billing department as to the installation fee.

So I say fine, I'm the biggest chump in the history of the human race and I love nothing more than sucking rich corporate monopolist dick so please set up another installation appointment several decades from now, and whatever you do please bill the fuck out of me in the meantime while I sit here with no service. So when the second appointment time rolls around...nothing. Nobody shows, nobody calls. Three days later, someone leaves me a voicemail stating that "You cancelled an appointment, would you like to re-schedule?" I'd rather eat the assholes out of a thousand dead skunks than give CumCrust another dime. Case closed.for a construction project of the commercial kind.

When we asked a cop what the hell this thing was doing at this location, in the middle of the streets, on a beautiful Saturday, the answer was that windows were being replaced in a penthouse condo. We watched crates of glass windows being raised into the sky.

Further inquiry revealed that this was the residence of the billionaire CEO of Comcast and he did not like the views afforded in the standard Penthouse.

This crane window thing went on for the afternoon with one crane operator confiding to us that this whole scenario was costing $1,000,000. A million bucks with staff, insurance, install, etc,etc.

Penthouse windows aside, because a billionaire can spend his bucks however he/she chooses, down here in serf land I write this as my girlfriend is back on the phone for the fifth time wondering why our service continues being cut off -even though we have a nearly $300 credit!!!

Over 'n Out!

Fuck you comcast‏

Okay so for about 6 months i had comcast and comcast internet so for the first about 4 months was me calling customer support tying to get the cable box to work which they continuosly said should be working but never did. My internet did the same but then i finnaly got someone who helped me with my internet turned out i mearly had a few cables wrong on my modem. So i keep calling customer support getting no help then i find out that the "technician" never installed the right card in the system since the nearest comcast store i could find was about 2 hours away they wanted to charge me to send a technician to give me the right card. I said no mail it to me. When i finnaly got the damn thing to work after about 2 months my bill jumped from 50$ to 109$. So i called them and asked them why it was so high they told me the promotion i had ended even though i couldnt even use the cable box after going back and forth with this call which lasted about a hour and a half he said "have a nice day" and hung up. I called back ironicaly got the same guy told him to go fuck off if he wants to HANG UP on me and then asked him to cancel my cable box with comcast which he finnaly did. Being without tv i went to my local store and bought a 30$ tv antenne and to this day the only thing i have to worry about with my tv service is if my antenne is pointed right

-William

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Philippines comcast customer service - James has had Enough

So, now I have cooled down a bit! called Comcast at 1:00 pm, lady in the Philapine's asked for phone number and last four of SS# and the problem after about 15 mins she could not help me, lady 2 asked phone number and last four of SS#, THIS HAPPENED 5 TIMES SO AT 2:30 I had had enough and hung up on them. I went to the Comcast office it was packed I saw they were on number 37 I took my number F--ck 62 so I waited for over an hour. The guy also could not help me and told me to call Tech Services I told him I am not calling the Philapines AGAIN!!! and asked him for the Tech services in Lynwood he gave the number to me Yay!!. Came home and called the number and guess what I was back in the Philapine's AGAIN I just hung up, so that is how I spent a wasted afternoon

Paying Comcast to return equipment Erich doesn't even want

Comcast, agh, gotta love'm ! …..  I experience an internet outage last spring. I call customer support. Instead of sending a reset signal, they send me a modem/router I didn't ask for and don't want and they charge me $9.95 for the privilege. Meanwhile my old equipment resets and is working fine, so I put the new equipment on the shelf and decide to deal with it later. A few months on they send a letter telling me they are going to charge me more if I keep the new equipment I never asked for.... but—and this is the really fun part— I have to pay THEM to return it ... or drive half way across town... even though I have been paying them a monthly modem rental fee.

I then spent an hour and half on the phone with Customer Service trying to get this straightened out, and they can't seem to get this straight with no luck. They just seem to be extracting the maximum advantage from their monopoly position. And now they want to merge with Time-Warner and form an even bigger monopoly? If you consider how much we all spend per month, these guys make Standard Oil look like child's play. What happened to our anti-trust laws? I am all for free markets, but since when did free markets mean only freedom for corporate extraction? I am about ready to unplug and find a new way to connect to the internet.  These guys are making AT&
T look good.

-Erich

I hate these asshats with a passion!‏

So here's my "Comcast Saga".

Living in a medium-sized city in the South, my options for connectivity to mass media are limited. Basically, for video service I have a choice between satellite (sorry, I like to watch tv, even when it rains) or, due to the monopoly set up by corrupt city politicians, Comcrap. For internet service, I'm limited to, again, Comcrap, or the ploddingly slow DSL provided by the almost-equally-moronic idiots from CenturyLink.

Tired of not even being able to watch a movie on Netflix without the inevitable stutters and freeze-ups, and also sick of my landline phone service breaking down every few months, followed by the usual crack team of inbreeds arriving a week or so later to spray paint my yard, change out wires, and leave said wires draped across the lawn unburied for 3 months thereafter I decided to cancel CenturyLink service. Hell, no one but telemarketer maggots ever call the landline anyway.

So I switched the security system to a mobile-based monitor and decided to go with Comcrap for internet service. I also had an issue with a hinky-acting older model DVR so I unhooked everything and tossed it in a box and headed to Comcrap to replace it and sign up for their "blazingly fast" internet service at 8am on a Saturday morning.

Now, I thought I was in for long lines and rude employees but I will admit, Comcrap has made some progress in the service quality of their local offices. There was a line at the door, but once everyone was let in, I was able to get to a window right away. They've remodeled into sort of an open plan lobby where you can log in on an iPad and get called up when your number and name comes up on a screen. Since there where about 8 customer service reps, waiting time was minimal. The reps were friendly and tried to be helpful.

There. That's it. The only good thing I have to say about Comcrap.

So I got my shiny new DVR box and my new modem/router and headed home to hook everything up and get the devices started, buoyed by my unexpectedly positive experience at the local office. "I'll be up and running in minutes!" I thought. Here is where the Comcrap of old reared its ugly head.

I got everything connected and decided to call and activate the internet service first, then call again to activate the new DVR. So I called, got the usual recording, entered my account phone number, "yes" to "activate new equipment," "yes" to "internet service". Then, I got "We're sorry, due to temporary service issues in your area, we cannot activate new equipment at this time." Wtf? I'm sitting here watching the tv in my bedroom and every channel is fine. So I called back, went through the prompts and this time was transferred to one of the inevitable Hindu "service techs". As I tried to decipher her song-song English-like patois, I did as she suggested, tried hooking up to various outlets, double-checking connections, etc. Though I was able to set up wifi, I could not get an internet connection no matter what I did. Finally, Raj's sister from Big Bang Theory gave up and set up a service appointment at my house for the following week. I was perturbed but she insisted "Nearest time for appointment I can give." (I'm guessing, hearing this, that despite my positive experience at the Comcrap store, things haven't really changed that much after all. I'm also surprised to learn that apparently Yoda was from India.)

Well okay, I'm stuck without internet for a week, I'll still get the new DVR box up and running! Bzzzz! WRONG!

So I called the setup number again. Went through the prompts. Same deal. Some sort of mythical problem prevented them sending a signal to boot up the DVR as well. I called three more times. Same answer. (Remember: all this time during a supposed "outage" my other cable box is working just fine.)

Finally, failing to get a tech, I called Comcrap's main number. I get a tech after about some time and go through everything again, checking connections, turning the box on and off, the usual rigmarole. Still nothing but digital snow. Finally the tech says there's an outage in my area. I told her I knew that but asked why my other tv and box were working fine. Ignoring me completely she said the outage had been going on since the 24th. I told her that was three days ago and asked when it was due to be fixed. Ignoring the fact that it had been three days without the supposed "outage" being fixed, she told me it would definitely be up-and-running by 3 pm that afternoon (about 1 1/2 hours hence). So I decided to try again later.

So an hour and a half later, you can guess what happened. Still no fucking service, of course. This time I was offered a recorded option of getting a callback when the "outage" was rectified so I could continue activating my new devices. The rub? They only call back during "normal business hours"! That's right! They only "callback" 9-to-5 on weekdays!! So their whole "24 hour service promise" is also a lie! Figures.

So after several more calls to recordings I again call the main number and got a tech who had some kind of undefined Spanish accent. Or something. Again I went through the whole run-through. Again was told about the fantasy "outage". But this time, he managed to send a signal through. He told me to wait 45 minutes, then turn the box off and on, and it should be working. Uh huh. And I got a bridge in Brooklyn you can buy on eBay. Of course it wasn't working.

Furious, I called again and was told the phantasmagorical, magical mystery "outage" should be resolved by 4:30pm. On subsequent calls I was told 8:30pm, followed by 10pm and finally 11am the next day. So I waited until the following day and was still unable to have my new service activated. Keep in mind this supposed "outage" doesn't actually exist, as my other box is getting a signal just fine, and has now been supposedly continuing for almost a week!

So now I'm waiting for a tech to come out to my house in a week and expecting the same level of nonexistent service and complete technical ignorance I spent an entire day and a half dealing with already! In the meantime, an acquaintance at work told me they had the same problem connecting a Comcrap internet device a few years ago. It seems that Comcrap's cables are in the same shoddy condition as their garbage, rebuilt in-home equipment and they don't want to spend the exorbitant funds it'd take to lay new cable in all areas. They're using the "outage" story as cover, hoping people in certain areas just give up and never notice the supposed "outage" is never rectified. This friend ended up having to cancel Comcrap and return to DSL service. Nice. This is just a story from an acquaintance, but knowing Comcrap, it's just gotta be true.

Oh, and FUCK COMCAST!

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The worst service in my life!‏

We were moving, called them one week before to change our address and get service in the building.... One week later they didn't do shit so they had to do it again and send a technician. The appointment was for sunday, but he never came. I spoke to about 3 representatives and they all confirmed the appointment, but that day nothing was on their system. Same happened on monday. They finally scheduled one for next monday which meant 2 weeks without internet which means i can't do my homework. The same thing will probably happen. I hope their company goes to shit and they all become unemployed.

-Mauro

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Mark explanins - without service for over one-month‏

Hi,

Thanks for offering to publish these stories. Dealing with Comcast has been the most primitive experience I have ever had with any company ever. 

We have been with out service for over one month and have been lied to about appointments that they have not come to although we have stayed home and have had our phones next to us constantly. My partner has kept a detailed log of every single contact with these clowns:

6/12-Internet out

6/14-Called com-cast, arranged for check-out service

6/14-tech arrived-explained wire stripped-told repair would be completed 7/3-specifically asked if any permission needed to be obtained from complex-advised nothing needed to be obtained to complete the needed repair

6/28-called to see if earlier appointment was available and if we needed to do anything for repairs to be completed-advised no earlier appointment available and no action required by us.

7/3 4pm-called to confirm appointment and to ask if anything was needed from us-advised appointment on track and advised nothing needed

7/3 7pm-technician arrives and explains that a "Letter of Permission" needs to be obtained and no repair can be completed. No one ever told us we needed to obtain this although we asked multiple times. Leasing office closed. Called comcast placed on hold for 55 minutes then spoke to LELA (operator ID given U7-) LELA promises that this is rescheduled for July 5th

7/5-8am-called to confirm appointment scheduled for 7/5. Told by AURORA (operator ID given R+P) that the appointment is scheduled for July 30th. After pressing that this was unacceptable and that we where just promised 7/5 she hung up the call

7/5-8.45am-called back and spoke to JUSTIN (operator ID given 94232). Told that appointment was for 7/5 and we would receive a call from a technician by 9.30am and a supervisor would call about complaint. Call never received

7/5 -9.40am one of us drive down to the XFINITY store in Voss and Westheimer in Houston while the other stayed at home waiting and told by person in store that the appointment was indeed for July 5th and they would be there that day. We stayed home all day on July 5th and no one ever called or came.

7/7 wrote detailed e-mail and received call from ASHLEY at corporate office who told us they would come that Monday or Tuesday. Provided both of our phone numbers and she promised we would get a 45 minute advance call. 

7/8 and 7/9--no technician called, came or otherwise manifested himself. Called ASHLEY back at corporate office and told that the Monday or Tuesday appointment was probably canceled because "we did not answer the phone and they do not leave voicemails" No one ever called either one of us. ASHLEY then told us the appointment scheduled for 7/12. Both my partner and I change our voicemails to say ""if this is COMCAST please leave a message of when you will be arriving and do not cancel our appointment"", and also tape a sign to our door that say "COMCAST : please knock we are here" plus both of our numbers. 

This company and the people that work for it are the most wretched we have come across. The people in their foreign call center clearly not only make up fake English-sounding names, but they also make up fictitious operator id's and appointments that will never happen. The corporate office people, instead of prioritizing us due to their gross incompetence and lack of communication instead implied that because we failed to answer out phone on the first or second ring we are responsible for the an appointment being canceled.

How hard if it to send a standard notice by mail or phone or e mail to all clients that say "if you live in an apartment you must obtain a letter of permission"??-instead we asked and asked and where told we needed to do nothing, and then given false appointments repeatedly. 

Thanks for taking this e-mail

xfinitytv.comcast.net purposefully throttle sports streaming, Net Neutrality anyone?

So this week I had my friend over who is a customer of comcast xfinity tv, meaning that he is able to stream some of the content available to him through an internet connection,  which includes some sports. When I say "some", I mean that a fraction of the sports he can watch at his house via a coaxial cable are available to him via the magnificence of the intertubes we call the internet.  We hung out at my place and to our surprise, an nba playoff game was available to us after we logged in using his account. Glorious indeed.

After the buffering completed,  we were treated to something in the range of 480p resolution (realize I have greater than 50mb down and 25mb up on average). This was not great but hey, we could watch some bball this way, and it's the playoffs right! A few minutes later, granted this is just slightly after the second half began, the quality began to drop. Worse than 480p? LOL.

So now it's a few minutes into the 3rd quarter and the quality turns into what I described as a postage stamp resolution. It looked like a 2009 ipod playing a movie the size of a thumb stamp on a 40+ inch 1080p screen. What happens next you'd never expect right , HA.

Next thing we know it just freezes and won't play the game at all, complete garbage. Must be my internet right? Shucks. Oh wait the commercials are displaying in perfect 720p, isn't that weird? It's almost like comcast xfinity tv doesn't want me to watch the game in quality, but fuck yeah they want me to enjoy fast food commercials in their full resolution and glory.

This is called throttling my friends, it's called bull shit. Net Neutrality, it's really a thing. Does comcast abide? No. Do they have politicians in their hands? Yes. Will things get worse before they get better? I don't know. Let's keep the knowledge coming, sharing our stories, and informing the masses. I thank you for an audience, we are all of us.

Please keep sending me stories and I will post them.

COMCASTSUCKSBALLS@LIVE.COM

Michael Capozzola is quite the artist!

Here's Byron's story from Salt Lake City

I have a new found appreciation for Direct TV after spending the last week trying to augment Direct TV with Comcast Internet.

First off the late installers on July 3rd decide after spending 5 minutes at my house that it was not convenient for them to run one line from the box to my wall so they simply took off when I was not looking and left.

The second appointment on July 5th didn’t call or show at all. Incredible! Then trying to figure out how to cancel is also a joke. The customer reps either are from India or Alabama which is basically the same level of capabaility.

I feel like I am stepping out of a minefield early with all limbs attached while I can. What a JOKE of a company. Byron in Salt Lake City.