On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 06:37:47AM -0500, Sean Donelan wrote:
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/technology/6490915/detail.html
It was the third multi-day outage experienced by Comcast Western Slope customers. The two previous also came as a result of train derailments.
One Aspen Comcast customer told the Aspen Times that he learned a lot about train derailments as result of his service interruptions.
"I never realized so many trains derailed until my Internet kept going out," said Michael McVoy.
You know, I was wondering when someone was going to mention this one. Personally I think the massive almost-3-day outage on the Qwest and GX longhaul on this path (which of course is a critical link in the northern path crosscountry fiber routes) was a LITTLE more important, but I guess this is better than nothing. Before a few Comcast people bitched about their cable modems, the only coverage of this story was about the ~100 skiers who had to take a bus back to Denver.
From what I saw the actual outage was caused by the railroad crews doing cleanup, not the initial derailment. They also took their sweet time removing the cars, and didn't let splicing crews into the tunnel for days.
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