North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Cable cut: Southwest Missouri
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 04:16:18PM -0700, Sean Donelan exclaimed: > > A cable cut in Missouri disrupted some services in the southwestern > part of the state, including Springfield. Its unclear what services > were affected, but 500 Powerball lottery machines were out of service > until 3:15 this afternoon. > > According to the Associated Press: "The severed line was owned by Sprint > Corp., which did not immediately return a phone call." wow. My hometown area has made it into NANOG. My existence is now justified. :) (maybe that promise I made about not moving back until there were network jobs is about to be fulfilled ...) -- Scott Francis [email protected] [home:] d a r k u n c l e . n e t Systems/Network Manager [email protected] [work:] t o n o s . c o m UNIX | IP networks | security | sysadmin | caffeine | BOFH | general geekery GPG public key 0xCB33CCA7 illum oportet crescere me autem minui Attachment:
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