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Re: [OM] Oh what fun....

Subject: Re: [OM] Oh what fun....
From: "Sue Pearce" <bs.pearce@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:36:48 -0500
Here we have "Kansas One Call" that flags things like fiber and gas lines 
and other things that are tasty to backhoes.

Don't you?

Bill Pearce
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken Norton" <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 6:08 PM
Subject: [OM] Oh what fun....


> Life in the telecommunications industry....  Somedays you feel like the
> Biblical character Job.
>
> We got a fiber-optic cut on the east side of the state when some moron 
> with
> a backhoe was clearing a ditch.  We got the conference-call set up when a
> couple minutes later we lost 1/4 of the state when a power company planted 
> a
> new pole right through a fiber 150 miles away from the first cut.  Then 
> not
> five minutes later, we lost another fiber on the west side of the state 
> when
> some farmer mowed his ditches and literally shredded to the ground a 
> couple
> of our pedestals.
>
> The third isolated several railroad track switches so it shutdown for six
> hours one of the busiest railroads in the country...
>
> What a day....and it's still not over with.
>
> AG
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