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Fire At AT&T Facility Causes Outage For Over a Million U-Verse Fiber Customers In Texas (wfaa.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the too-hot-to-handle dept.

New submitter JustChapman writes: Local Dallas/Fort Worth WFAA is reporting a major outage of AT&T U-Verse fiber internet, due to a lightening strike at a switching facility in Richardson, TX. Apparently the strike took out primary and secondary power systems, setting fire to the building. One commenter states a representative allegedly said that 1.5 million customers are currently without service.

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  1. lightening vs lightning by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Lightening is where you lighten something up that's dark such as a photo in digital photo editing software.

    Lightning is the high-energy burst that almost rivals a nuclear bomb, causes audio compression (i.e. a thing called "thunder"), and can start building fires even if the building is properly grounded.

    Hopefully, this has been enlightening for JustChapman. Get a dictionary!