Whatever happened to, "CALL BEFORE YOU DIG!!?
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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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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