[LINK] Flood and fire damages fibres

[David Boxall]

On 28/01/2013 10:25 PM, Kim Holburn wrote:
> News at 11.  We have talked about it here on link and it's happened.
>
> Floods:
>
> http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/hundreds-of-thousands-in-communication-blackout-as-telstra-outage-leaves-everything-north-of-gladstone-without-phone-internet-or-triple-zero-accesshalf-of-state-in-dark/story-e6freoof-1226563515100
>
> Fire:
>
> http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/communications-cut-in-major-bushfire-zone-20130126-2dd3b.html
> ...
Does anyone know what actually happened in the flood? Were they overhead 
cables?

The fire incident was human error; a bulldozer through a cable. I 
wouldn't attribute that to the natural disaster.

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