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Insulating CO gear with management offices

2000-03-30 23:21:14+02 by Dan Lyke 4 comments

Unattributed to protect the innocent: Apparently some telcos and ISPs were hit pretty hard during the recent DFW tornados, they were the ones that "haven't learned to insulate their CO gear from tornados by placing management offices around the window perimeter."

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#Comment made: 2002-02-21 06:29:53+01 by: kendall

Storms passed a few miles north of the NOC that has Monkeyfist.com (casabah.org, and all my other domains). I was in Dallas studying the radar track with one eye, and with the other I was poised to hit enter on 'shutdown -r now' and to speed dial the NOC. :> Whew!

#Comment made: 2002-02-21 06:29:53+01 by: jra

Dan, Dan, Dan... You're on NANOG, too? ;-) (BTW: this comment tag had no count on the home page)

#Comment made: 2002-02-21 06:29:53+01 by: Dan Lyke

NANOG?

#Comment made: 2002-02-21 06:29:54+01 by: jra

Oh. I just saw almost that same comment on a network mailing list I'm on...

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