[88309] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: I never realized so many trains derailed until my Internet kept going out
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard A Steenbergen)
Sun Jan 29 15:36:45 2006
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 15:36:07 -0500
From: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0601290636060.3401@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 06:37:47AM -0500, Sean Donelan wrote:
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> http://www.thedenverchannel.com/technology/6490915/detail.html
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> It was the third multi-day outage experienced by Comcast Western Slope
> customers. The two previous also came as a result of train derailments.
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> One Aspen Comcast customer told the Aspen Times that he learned a lot
> about train derailments as result of his service interruptions.
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> "I never realized so many trains derailed until my Internet kept going
> out," said Michael McVoy.
You know, I was wondering when someone was going to mention this one.=20
Personally I think the massive almost-3-day outage on the Qwest and GX=20
longhaul on this path (which of course is a critical link in the northern=
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path crosscountry fiber routes) was a LITTLE more important, but I guess=20
this is better than nothing. Before a few Comcast people bitched about=20
their cable modems, the only coverage of this story was about the ~100=20
skiers who had to take a bus back to Denver.
=46rom what I saw the actual outage was caused by the railroad crews doing=
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cleanup, not the initial derailment. They also took their sweet time=20
removing the cars, and didn't let splicing crews into the tunnel for days.
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Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras
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