People ask why I don’t do fiber. The following story pretty much sums it up. For those doing fiber, how do you do it with a 2 or 3 man team? We’d be run ragged. How do you stay sain?
Someone was logging up in Ogdensburg near Joe Hill and took a tree down which took another tree down which took another tree down which snapped off the side arms of the utility pole taking out the powerlines which burned the fiber underneath it. Last night about 11 o’clock I drove up there on my way home and found the Crown Castle guys trying to figure out where the fiber damage was, I talk to them for a moment and they were like yeah it’s like 2500 feet away from here but we can’t figure out where the fiber goes, I said follow me, so they got over there and started work. Zito was already over there fixing their fiber with about 10 guys and five trucks. I just spun back up there and as of this morning they (both companies) are still trying to figure out why the fiber is not working. Add to this the utility easement is on the side of a mountain and not right beside the road. These guys had entire teams and haven’t fixed 1,500ft of fiber in 12 hours plus had to wait nearly 7hrs to even access the local due to power lines down.
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