Sabotage, the bad kind

[ritaxis]

Before dawn today somebody cut eight fiber optic cables serving land lines and cell phones in the areas around San Jose (and incidentally, Santa Cruz). The effect was massive: ATM machines and emergency services were also cut off. Also, no internet. No email.

It meant that lots of people in our area couldn't even call an ambulance.

On my part, I didn't get the car to the vet the last few days and it ran out of charge again, this time for no reason at all. Also, I haven't seen my cell phone in five days.

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[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

This one caused intense disruption. Four about fourteen hours you couldn't use a cellphone in a fairly populous and productive region, and you couldn't use a lot of land lines, you couldn't use an ATM machine, banks couldn't do a lot of their other business, and you couldn't dispatch an ambulance, and you couldn't use any internet at all. That's a lot of disruption.