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n Thu, 23 Mar 2006 18:32:13 -0500 (EST) Sean Donelan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=463928&category=BUSINESS&newsdate=3/23/2006 > A fire Tuesday that tore through a popular bakery in Cohoes left 70,000 > Time Warner Cable subscribers without TV service. Some who also rely on > the cable company for their high-speed Internet or telephone found all > three out of commission. > > In the pictures, it appears electric, telephone and cable lines were all > on the utility poles damaged by the fire. I'm not sure why time-warner > cable had the brunt of the outages in the newspaper reports. It may have > just been bad luck on which company's lines got baked (sorry, more bad > puns). > A few years back there was a photo floating around of a fibre that had been destroyed by a stray bullet. Does anybody know of it, or have a copy ? Thanks, Mark. -- "Sheep are slow and tasty, and therefore must remain constantly alert." - Bruce Schneier, "Beyond Fear"
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