I had that during the 2020 storm that swept through the US. I called PUD a few months before about a tree hanging at a 45 degree angle above the primaries. I called again a month later when I noticed the tree had been slowly shifting. No sense or urgency from the PUD. Then the storm hit and I watched from my car as it smashed into a pole, snapped the primaries, destroyed a transformer, snapped the secondaries, snapped the pole, and then hung bits of itself from the cable space. It was pretty spectacular—I wish I had gotten it on video.
Ignoring it for ~2 months turned a $500 tree removal into something that cost tens of thousands of dollars—not to mention the teams that had to do all the work in sub-freezing temps instead of cool with intermittent showers. Everyone on in a ~1 mile stretch went without power for ~17 hours in 13 degree weather. Fortunately I have two generators that are worth more than my car and I had the ability to fail over to a Starlink connection. Internet was back up about about 38 hours later. -A On Mon Jun 27, 2022, 05:14 PM GMT, Mike Hammett <mailto:na...@ics-il.net> wrote: > Maybe. > > I saw multiple reports of a town this past week end that didn't respond to > multiple calls for a transformer and pole CURRENTLY on fire. I guess they had > better things to do. > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions <http://www.ics-il.com/> [image] <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL>[image] <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb>[image] <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions>[image] <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> > Midwest Internet Exchange <http://www.midwest-ix.com/> [image] <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix>[image] <https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange>[image] <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> > The Brothers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> [image] <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp>[image] <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> ------------------------------ > From: "Jay Hennigan" <j...@west.net> > To: nanog@nanog.org > Sent: Monday, June 27, 2022 12:07:16 PM > Subject: Re: Reporting Comcast outside plant issues? > > On 6/26/22 19:27, Justin Streiner wrote: > > Does anyone here have a contact at Comcast for reporting outside plant > > issues that are not (at the moment) service-affecting? I am not a > > Comcast customer, and they make it nearly impossible for non-customers > > to reach them unless you're signing up for service. > > Call the non-emergency number for your local PSAP (police or fire > department) and report wires down. They'll know how to get it handled. > > -- > Jay Hennigan - j...@west.net > Network Engineering - CCIE #7880 > 503 897-8550 - WB6RDV >
