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Re: manhole covers


From: blitz <blitz () macronet net>
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 04:43:57 -0500


At a University I "consult" for, this is a common problem, their 34.5kv lines, which incidentally travel the same hole as their fiber optics, blow open about once a month, due to failing old power lines.

Get used to it, and make money off of it, is all I can say....




At 20:59 2/21/03 -0500, you wrote:

On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Marshall Eubanks wrote:

>
> The interesting thing is that this happens every few weeks (at least -
> sometimes multiple times per week), and generally they don't know why.
>
> Not in Adams Morgan. Not in Foggy Bottom. Not even
> in Georgetown Heights. Only in Georgetown, Its become a local joke.
>

Well of course we know why, its the St. Elmo's Fire ;).


allan
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