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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (3364)	7/19/2001 3:11:27 PM
From: GraceZ	Respond to of 46821

one of the cars was a flatbed carrying a load of backhoes I'll bet they didn't even call "Miss Utility" either. -vbg- We have buried utilities on my home property and since I've had numerous things constructed that required digging around utility lines we've had to call Miss Utility several times. You cannot trust contractors to do this because they'd rather blow up a few houses than subject themselves to a three day wait. The funniest thing is that the person that shows up to mark out the cable, gas, telephone and electrical line is almost never a "Miss". You get one person showing up for each utility (a waste of bandwidth). When I answer the knock on the door they mumble "Miss Utility" with a sullenness that only a teenage boy with his first dead end job could muster.

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (3364)	7/20/2001 1:16:10 AM
From: GraceZ	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 46821

Frank, Turns out they didn't need backhoes to cut that cable in the tunnel. Some of the cars were loaded with wood to fuel the fire. "We're told some of the boxcars are actually glowing," fire department spokesman Hector Torres said. "You're talking about glowing metal. I'm guessing 1,000 or 1,500 degrees." news.excite.com Glowing boxcars, better to see with I guess. I worked until late tonight (11pm) and I passed a bunch of emergency network repair guys with about five trucks lined up near an open manhole. I assume they were trying to patch some connections north of the city manually to other lines. Somebody is making some nice overtime out of this. What I wonder is when this is over who is going to pick up the tab. Voice and data telecommunications service for customers of long-distance company WorldCom Inc. was disrupted between Washington and New York. WorldCom spokeswoman Jennifer Baker said the blaze damaged a fiber-optic cable, forcing WorldCom to reroute telecom traffic and put new cables in place. A major north-south MCI line runs right up the median on RT 83 and jumps down onto the Rail Trail within a mile of my house. I remember having to put up with the crews when they putting it in. I imagine it's the same line they have running through the tunnel because that is the quickest easiest route through the city from the south.