From: ducky@yabbs
To: dmonger@yabbs
Subject: re: mci and bulldozers
Date: Thu Jul 28 09:53:50 1994
In message mci and bulldozers, dmonger said:
> well, apparently yesterday afternoon, amtrack managed to chop right
> through a fiber optic cable that belonged to MCI.

I believe the technical term for this phenomenon is "backhoed".

> Now you wouldn't think this would be a big deal in princeton, nj but
> this was apparently the major NY - DC trunk that got sliced.

It gets better.  It wasn't just MCI fiber that got backhoed, WilTel and
Sprint were affected as well.  A major amount of telephone connectivity
in the northeastern United States was taken out.

-k