[10968] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BOOM! there goes WorldCom
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Thu Jul 17 19:17:55 1997
To: yone@wolfenet.com
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 17 Jul 1997 14:55:15 PDT."
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Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 18:48:16 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
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
