[89518] in North American Network Operators' Group
Fire in bakery fries fiber optic cable
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Thu Mar 23 19:32:45 2006
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 18:32:13 -0500 (EST)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=463928&category=BUSINESS&newsdate=3/23/2006
A fire Tuesday that tore through a popular bakery in Cohoes left 70,000
Time Warner Cable subscribers without TV service. Some who also rely on
the cable company for their high-speed Internet or telephone found all
three out of commission.
In the pictures, it appears electric, telephone and cable lines were all
on the utility poles damaged by the fire. I'm not sure why time-warner
cable had the brunt of the outages in the newspaper reports. It may have
just been bad luck on which company's lines got baked (sorry, more bad
puns).
