"CABLE VAULT" and "CATASTROPHIC FAILURE". Crikey.
The only silver lining (once all is said and done) is that Verizon's perforce replacing a ton of copper with fiber (which won't be susceptible to some of the problems here).
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Everybody has a tangle of cables under their desk, and installing a new computer can be difficult. But that isn't a "cabling nightmare"… THIS is
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Into the vault: the operation to rescue Manhattan’s drowned internet
Hurricane Sandy’s storm surge flooded Verizon’s downtown office, rendering miles of copper wiring useless
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