@ai6yr @crazyeddie one of the best outage stories i had (well after it was over and i'd recovered) was an outage of most of southeast US for all sprint voice.the progression of notices from sprint:- we are having an issue with our main voice POP in the southeast- there has apparently been a flood in our pop- the flood caused a mud slide, resulting in 10ft/3m of mud filling our POP- the mud slide caused a train in the station to derail and slam into our POP- we are waiting for HAZMAT to tell us when we can get into the POP to assess the damage, since the train that derailed was carrying hazardous chemicals- the POP is a total loss and we are waiting to hear from AT&T how quickly they can get us an entire ESS POPultimately, a middle eastern country who had ordered a full ESS agreed to take delayed delivery and they fedex overnighted an entire POP full of gear and pulled every sprint tech and contractor east of the mississippi in to rebuild once they'd cleared the mud and old gear out. total outage for all sprint voice in the region was 6 days. this included the federal government.sometimes it's not that clever to use your railway right of way to deliver telephony.
