BOOM! there goes WorldCom

Thu Jul 17 22:48:16 UTC 1997

Scott Yoneyama writes:
> that took out the entire northwest for 8 hours.  The guy was 600 yards
> away from where his permit allowed him to dig.  He stopped when he cut
> the fiber and shut his hoe down.  When they got out there, they found
> that he was digging right next to train tracks, was inches from cutting
> a high voltage power line that surely would have killed him, and was
> also fairly close to a gas line.

Here in Manhattan, we don't get lines cut by digging, for obvious
reasons.

On the other hand, most places don't have to worry about cladding
fiber to resist rats...

Perry