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Re: Now that's an odd failure mode...
From: Chris Adams <cma () cmadams net>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 23:37:28 -0600
Once upon a time, Chris Hartley <hartleyc () gmail com> said:
At OARNet, the leading cause of aerial fiber outages was squirrels, followed closely by weather, distantly by angry farmers and once in Akron, random gunfire... At OSU, the leading cause of fiber outages is squirrels, followed distantly by fire.
What about the random moron trying to steal copper wire from the pole (and getting glass instead)?
Don't squirrels go back to their stash? Could a squirrel get through that hole, or were those just a lost stash?
Eh, if the number of small oak trees I find sprouting in my flower beds is any indication, the squirrels' brains are smaller than the acorns and they forget where they left them. -- Chris Adams <cma () cmadams net>
Current thread:
- Now that's an odd failure mode... Valdis Kletnieks (Jan 30)
- Re: Now that's an odd failure mode... Randy Fischer (Jan 30)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Now that's an odd failure mode... Larry Sheldon (Jan 30)
- Re: Now that's an odd failure mode... Larry Sheldon (Jan 30)
- Re: Now that's an odd failure mode... Larry Sheldon (Jan 30)
- Re: Now that's an odd failure mode... Philip Dorr (Jan 30)
- Re: Now that's an odd failure mode... Gary Buhrmaster (Jan 30)
- Re: Now that's an odd failure mode... Ken Chase (Jan 30)
- Re: Now that's an odd failure mode... Jay Hennigan (Jan 30)
- Re: Now that's an odd failure mode... Chris Hartley (Jan 30)
- Re: Now that's an odd failure mode... Chris Adams (Jan 30)
- Re: Now that's an odd failure mode... joel jaeggli (Jan 30)