Posted on 01/25/2022 9:59:04 PM PST by algore
Homes and businesses in Seattle’s Magnolia neighborhood have been without phone and internet service for five days, and now, CenturyLink says that repairs may take up to three weeks.
Are AI cameras in Seattle’s Magnolia neighborhood start of troubling trend?
The outage is being blamed on a pair of vandalism-related incidents from late last week. CenturyLink crews say that it appears as though someone cut through a wooden box running under the Magnolia Bridge that holds fiber-optic cables. Cables and copper wiring were then stolen.
After initial repairs, some homes in the area had their service restored on Saturday. But completed repairs were then vandalized again, and because of that, CenturyLink estimates that full restoration of service to Magnolia could take 2-3 weeks.
Rob Benson, a front desk worker at Coldwell Banker Bain Real Estate downtown Magnolia, told KIRO Newsradio that their phone and internet were down for four days, before eventually coming back online on Monday. To make matters worse, the outage has caused an alarm to ring nonstop in the building since last Thursday.
Benson says he’s never seen an outage like this in three years working in the neighborhood.
And while CenturyLink was able to work out a fix for the real estate office, others in the area have not been as lucky. The company says that it will be reaching out customers with direct updates on individual situations “soon.”
But seriously I would expect utility Companies to deal with minor issues like this in like 48 hours or less.
My sla would be that, but I would expect under 8
It’s Seattle, Jim!!
Well Scottie, the only solution is to nuke it from space so that it won’t happen again!!
Sulu. Load the Photon torpedoes. Full speed ahead!
Nobody cares since it’s the home of CHAZ/CHOP. They started the entire 2020 mess that led to election theft and the Biden Usurpation. No internet is a pretty light ‘sentence’ for their crimes against humanity.
Vandalism?
Nothing more than crooks out stealing copper, and sawing through whatever is in the way.
Send them to jail after reviewing the numerous cameras in the area and ... never mind, it’s Seattle.
Seattle used to be a great place.
Scotty lived in Woodinville, 20 miles east of seattle
The professor from Gilligans island lived on an island 20 miles west
Boeing was not a McD Company,
Costco had combo pizzas
Precision electronic measurements were not a Fluke
Nordstrom had Nordy balloons for the kids
Starbucks had free a gumball machine
Even Bill Nye and the Gates guy were kinda rational
I lived in downtown Seattle for a year in the early 70s. Back then it was a safe town to walk to the Pike Street Market, to the movies or restaurants. That is long gone to the hoodlums and homeless. It is Little Beirut.
Beirut may be safer; ya only RARELY hear about it in the news, whereas Seattle seems to ping the meter pretty regularly.
The vandals took the handles.
First big red flag: this stuff was in a WOODEN box.
yeah. This occurred to me as well. They might as well as wrapped it in Christmas paper with a bow.
As long as the copper doesn’t fetch more than $950, what’s the problem?
ICWYDT
Cable lines have very little if any copper. Fiber lines have none (some have a non copper tracer wire). In my work, I have never seen this stuff in a wooden box, most are plastic boxes that are virtually impossible to get into without special tools. But if you get into them, other the cutting about two feet of cable, there is no way to get a the rest of it.
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