Originally posted by Yknurd
Just caught this one.
Looked like Mac was the one who STFU.
-OR-
Respectfully let it go?
Here's what I can add, seeing this thread is turning into a Mac hunt....
I work for Cox Communications in Phoenix. I work in the network operations field with plant design and maintenance. The last two weeks, I have had a 4-man crew in the greater Tulsa area working to re-lash our service lines (Coaxial feeder and Fiber) to new strands connected to new pole. Reason being, about 1000-1200 power poles down in the greater Tulsa area. My guys have been working with Cox crews from New Orleans, Dallas, Omaha, Las Vegas, San Diego and Virginia. They are scheduled to come home tomorrow.
Owasso and Skiatook areas were hit the hardest. There is no Cox services in Skiatook but some of our guys have helped the power Co-ops up there with stringing lines. Depending on where Mac lives in the Owasso area, he stands a very likely chance that his utilities are underground. Most of the Owasso area is newer and the utilities are underground. In these areas, our service came and went with the power. Seeing our plant is powered in order to run our in-line amplifiers, BTD/BTE's and line extenders; we are at the mercy of the power grid. The Owasso area should be powered by the Oologah Power Generating Plant in which there were transmission lines affected here and there from the plant, south, through Collinsville and rural Owasso areas. Those lines also fed much of greater Tulsa. The lines weren't down, per-say, but rather spotty due to the grids being up and down in Tulsa. Mac's area should have been like a blinking light for many days. I looked at some of the network stats on our Polaris tool today and many of the nodes in Owasso were hit and miss for many days. Today shows much of the Tulsa area back up with some spotty node outages in North Tulsa and Mid-town Tulsa.
Mac, glad you guys made it through okay. I'll see ya in January bud.
