coincidence
Here in The Netherlands, there was a sizable outage. Knock on seems to affect our IPTV, but not internet ;-}
Network carrier Level3 says a severed cable is to blame for an outage that hit portions of the US Friday morning. The company said that a cable in the Dallas, TX region has been severed and is leading to service disruptions for traffic running through the hub. Level3 had the following statement to pass along to El Reg on the …
We'd love to deny that Texas is even part of the United States but then the media keeps reminding us of that nightmare. Not having Texas on the internet has just raised the average I.Q. of the entire world.
Is there a way to anonymously thank the cable workers for this one?
>;-)
Is that nice? After all, Texas was good enough to take in Ted (the Canadian Cuban) Cruz and firewall him away from the rest of the world. It'd be better if they could find a way to send him back to Calgary, but we can't have everything.
Texas is also responsible for other political hilarity, not least that gentleman who proves that George W. may have been the stupid Bush brother but he was the smart Texas governor. Actually, there are two of 'em who are demonstrably even more dense than George, one who was running for Prez until recently (even his not-quite-room temperature, in Celsius, IQ managed to work out just how bad the odds are of his winning) and the guy who's still governor and who appears to be convinced that the Evil Commie Muslim Kenyan is going to use the US Army to stage a coup against the democratically elected (but most definitely not Democrat) white Christian Aryan gun-owners of the Great State of Texas. (You think I'm making this up? Read on: http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/05/02/403865824/texas-governor-deploys-state-guard-to-stave-off-obama-takeover) Personally, I'd just love to see the Texas National Guard try to hold off the US Army. Why, it might well be that George was the smartest politician in Texas...
Without Texas the rest of the US, indeed the rest of the world, would be sorely lacking in high-quality entertainment.
... is the backhoe. It's only going to worse and individual fibres and bundles get more and more capacity per-fibre. It may not even help you to run the down seperate fibres if they're in the same bundle.
I remember once when we were having the roads resurfaced at the college where I worked at the time. One of those big road grinders managed to find and grab a 300 pair telephone bundle, which at the time was also the network link to the other side of Campus. There was a steam tunnel between buildings, so instead of running the bundle under it, they had run it over the tunnel, where it was only 4" down from the TOP of the road. Oops...
Some poor guy had to spend hours and hours splicing in a new cable.
Speaking of gas lines...
Pretty much every time any sewer system repairs are done in my neighborhood, the city manages to break a natural gas line.
They hit the one that feeds several neighbouring blocks, and the flames were a good twenty feet high until the gas company arrived to shut the line.
No injuries or explosions yet.
Yes, but often the flags can be wrong. One dig in a southwestern city was outside the lines and hit the power main they were trying to avoid dead-on, marked 20' away. Depends on the skill of various people, and corps keep doing everything they can to get rid of anyone who makes a living, replacing them with Slavery 2.0 tards.