I was affected by the outage. However, I was able to text because I was connected to Wifi. I was also home because I was on vacation. Had I been at work, I would still have been connected to Wifi, so my husband, friends, and family could get ahold of me. I did go to the grocery store during the outage. The store has wifi, so I could text my husband about a couple of things he wanted.
While it's nice that AT&T is offering compensation, I didn't expect it and I'm not even sure the issue was AT&T's fault. There is an investigation taking place and unless I've missed something, the results of that haven't been released.