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Last Thursday, someone cut four of the five major fiber optic cables supporting Santa Cruz, CA and other locations south and east of us. While not sure who did it, the knowledge needed to do this could only have come from within AT&T.
Anyway, can you imagine a day without land line telephones, cell phones, Internet, 911 and all the things we take for granted. None of the ATM's worked, some major stores could not scan products, UPS could not deliver. Hospitals, clinics, and medical groups had no access to medical records. Charge cards did not work, check verification systems did not work. All of the state and federal government offices were down. Want some gas, cash was the only way to get it. We were back in the sixties.
Amazingly only one crime was committed during this period by some opportunistic low lifes who thought they could pull off a robbery. After all, no phones, but who would have thought the the local PD would nab them. The police and fire departments had all available personnel on constant patrol and as it happened, the shop owner flagged one down, the rest was history.
But alas, late Thursday afternoon, the systems were back on, and a trip into the past was over.
There is a $250,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the culprits.
Anyway, can you imagine a day without land line telephones, cell phones, Internet, 911 and all the things we take for granted. None of the ATM's worked, some major stores could not scan products, UPS could not deliver. Hospitals, clinics, and medical groups had no access to medical records. Charge cards did not work, check verification systems did not work. All of the state and federal government offices were down. Want some gas, cash was the only way to get it. We were back in the sixties.
Amazingly only one crime was committed during this period by some opportunistic low lifes who thought they could pull off a robbery. After all, no phones, but who would have thought the the local PD would nab them. The police and fire departments had all available personnel on constant patrol and as it happened, the shop owner flagged one down, the rest was history.
But alas, late Thursday afternoon, the systems were back on, and a trip into the past was over.
There is a $250,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the culprits.
