[56043] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: manhole covers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (blitz)
Sat Feb 22 04:45:26 2003
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 04:43:57 -0500
To: Allan Liska <allan@allan.org>
From: blitz <blitz@macronet.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0302212058240.29671-100000@vbind.com>
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At a University I "consult" for, this is a common problem, their 34.5kv
lines, which incidentally travel the same hole as their fiber optics, blow
open about once a month, due to failing old power lines.
Get used to it, and make money off of it, is all I can say....
At 20:59 2/21/03 -0500, you wrote:
>On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
>
> >
> > The interesting thing is that this happens every few weeks (at least -
> > sometimes multiple times per week), and generally they don't know why.
> >
> > Not in Adams Morgan. Not in Foggy Bottom. Not even
> > in Georgetown Heights. Only in Georgetown, Its become a local joke.
> >
>
>Well of course we know why, its the St. Elmo's Fire ;).
>
>
>allan
>--
>Allan Liska
>allan@allan.org
>http://www.allan.org
