Anyone like melted plastic?

Dr. Doctor

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(Cross posted on Nerdery, but more foolery here)

I finally got a copy of a photo from the melted fiber line at A&M. The reason phone and internet is slow. The repairs are supposed to take 3 months, at least.

Enjoy!

~egon

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7:53a, 12/20/11

wow, what caused it to melt?

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7:54a, 12/20/11

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7:56a, 12/20/11

Gees...

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7:59a, 12/20/11

Too close to steam pipes maybe?

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8:05a, 12/20/11

Steam pipe blew and no one found it for ~3 hours.

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8:21a, 12/20/11

Bet that is gonna make sorting out the color code a beech.

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8:41a, 12/20/11

For anyone who wants to see info on the repairs that started Saturday: http://problem.tamu.edu/blog.php?sid=371183

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8:43a, 12/20/11

Yeah, steam line blew and melted the lines.

The guy who told me was responsible for getting the backups up and running in CS. Said it will take a minimum of 3 months. Something like 5k fiber connections.

Hopefully A&M will now fix steam lines, since this isn't the first time something happened.

~egon

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9:14a, 12/20/11

nice.
very trippy.

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9:15a, 12/20/11

RUFIO

RUFIO

RU FI OOOOOO

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9:46a, 12/20/11

at least its semi-cool weather to be working down there

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9:49a, 12/20/11

Im glad it was the steam pipes and not the jerk marathon I started on the pron thread that caused this

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10:24a, 12/20/11

quote:
Said it will take a minimum of 3 months. Something like 5k fiber connections.

As of 8pm last night, 1278 of 1600 total fibers have been repaired (79%).

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10:31a, 12/20/11

Sweet!

I was hoping they were fixing it quickier than original estimates. Since the trucks they brought in were from DFW and kinda on a "oh, have them for the weekend" and not "oh, we need them for 3 months".

~egon

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10:36a, 12/20/11

quote:
at least its semi-cool weather to be working down there

They pull the fiber bundle above ground and splice it in a specially built truck with a machine that does the splicing.