Comment Citywide Outages (Score 1) 382
I had the opportunity to work with the crew that took out the internet service for Boston in late 2003 (I think it was).
They were electrical contractors for BigDig work, and were supposed to remove electrical control boxes that were marked "dead". There were 3 marked boxes, 2 were dead electrical boxes that were all set to be removed, the third was a AT&T broadband fiber control box that someone had marked to be removed. All of Boston was without internet for about 8 hours.
Needless to say, the guys responsible for it were pretty pissed off at whoever marked it. But then again, that's what insurance companies hired by these giant contractors are for. -AA
