BOOM! there goes WorldCom

Fri Jul 18 12:31:59 UTC 1997

I did have a fiber break in the street Manhatten due to a "steam leak". 
Took out 48 strands.

Paul

Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> 
> 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

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