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Last Thursday, the wonderful workers of Progress Energy (local power company) decided to do some utility work behind one of the houses on our row. In the process, they succeeded in screwing up our cable line in two ways. First, they somehow severed the line. Second, they crossed the cable line with a live power line which basically melted the cable line lose to the junction box.
So two days with no internet later, a TWC service guy came out and ran a temporary line to replace the screwed up one. This is basically good, except the temporary line will have to be replaced with a burried one at some point in about two weeks, right under the grass I'm trying to grow in the back yard. Oh well.
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I'm surprised that utility workers would be working with an energized line. It's good that they decided to cut it before they crossed lines, that would have been bad for devices attached to the cable. Finally, smart money says that TWC doesn't make it out to bury the cable within two weeks.
Posted by: Richard Bachman | August 9, 2005 06:21 PM
They actually came back fixed the cable sometime friday a week after the first guy came out, so that was good. What was better is that they were actually smart about it. Instead of digging a new trench through the yard, they fished the new cable through the hose that had contained the old cable!
Posted by: Wayne | August 19, 2005 11:33 AM