Hurricane Sandy Delivers 'Another Catastrophe' To Verizon's Home, Complicating Network Repairs

Hurricane Sandy Delivers 'Another Catastrophe' To Verizon's Home, Complicating Network Repairs:

 "On Saturday morning, pumps sucked thousands of gallons of salt water from the building's basement and spewed it into the street. A roaring 2-megawatt generator kept Verizon's underground network of switches running until power was restored.

In the cable vault, Verizon employees wearing white hard hats walked amid rows of tangled, multi-colored cables. Some began the tedious process of splicing wet copper wires and drying them out beneath fans and dehumidifiers."


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