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Cattledog

(5,919 posts) Mon Dec 18, 2017, 07:40 PM Dec 2017

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Intruder caused the Atlanta Airport power outage.

A rat chewed through one of the cables. Source: NBC Nightly.

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Intruder caused the Atlanta Airport power outage. (Original Post) Cattledog Dec 2017 OP

Idiotic design exacerbated it YessirAtsaFact Dec 2017 #1

Oh that is dumb. sdfernando Dec 2017 #2

YessirAtsaFact

(2,064 posts)

1. Idiotic design exacerbated it

Reply to Cattledog (Original post)

Mon Dec 18, 2017, 07:46 PM

Dec 2017

The airport has redundant power lines.

But they ran both primary and backup lines through the same tunnel. One fire took out both of them.

sdfernando

(4,947 posts)

2. Oh that is dumb.

Reply to YessirAtsaFact (Reply #1)

Mon Dec 18, 2017, 07:50 PM

Dec 2017

We run redundant data circuits with disparate carriers and disparate paths.

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