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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 13:53:28 EST
- From: jeffj%jiji@uunet.UU.NET (Jeffrey Jonas)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: The Recent East Coast Storm
- Message-ID: <telecom12.928.2@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: TELECOM Digest
- Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 928, Message 2 of 13
- Lines: 32
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- I was just cleaning my desk (a yearly event) and I found the long
- detailed TELECOM Digest reports of the Chicago flood.
-
- Am I correct that I haven't seen even a peep in the TELECOM Digest
- about the large storm that NY/NJ suffered a few weeks ago? Although
- the stock exchanges and major switching equipment is not near the
- shore, in Manhattan "Water Street" lived up to its name with flooding
- reaching four feet at the South Street Seaport. Several bank
- buildings (such as Chemical Bank) were severely flooded and mobile
- banks of phones were in the streets a few days later. Most of the
- underground train service was out of service that day (the PATH trains
- that cross from NY-NJ under the Hudson were hartest hit, losing the
- Hoboken terminal for about a week). LaGuardia Airport was shut down
- for several days. All trains were severely delayed. And there's
- nobody to blame!
-
- I guess the most major telecom aspest of the storm was people like me
- getting cabin fever after staying indoors for three days and starting
- to call friends and relatives to relieve the boredom.
-
- I wonder if John Higdon tried calling anybody in NY/NJ during the
- storm emergency just to gripe about the AT&T call choking.
-
-
- Jeffrey Jonas jeffj@panix.com
-
-
- [Moderator's Note: You are correct. Not a word was mentioned here. I
- did not see it personally, and no one bothered to write about it. :(
- Thanks for bringing it up. PAT]
-
-