It’s no worse than dealing with lightning strikes on tower sites. Just a different sort of problem, just happens less often.
You assume we are sane in the first place. Or perhaps we do make the sign of the cross a lot, it probably can’t hurt. Perhaps that’s what you meant. Mark > On Sep 6, 2019, at 8:30 AM, Matt Hoppes <mattli...@rivervalleyinternet.net> > wrote: > > 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. > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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