Re:“Dig once” bill could bring fiber Internet to much of the US
by 33W on Thursday March 23, 2017 @12:56PM
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Or for me, accidentally cut the copper line to the rest of the neighborhood and had to dig a trench in my front yard to repair it. I'm on the corner and towards the front of the subdivision, so I had quite a bit of work being done over the past 6 months.
Re:“Dig once” bill could bring fiber Internet to much of the US
by dbg31415 on Thursday March 23, 2017 @01:26PM
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And they leave a pile of dirt, plant the wrong grass sod, put the sprinklers in the wrong place, and then tell you that they are done because it's just "cosmetic" issues left? Sounds so familiar.
Re:“Dig once” bill could bring fiber Internet to much of the US
by herpdorplarp on Monday March 27, 2017 @04:14AM
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Time to get your hands dirty, then!
Re:“Dig once” bill could bring fiber Internet to much of the US
by stronglikedan on Thursday March 23, 2017 @03:16PM
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They cut my neighbors water main in the process, and then blamed it on inaccurate (spray painted) markings. I'm a novice, but even I could tell that the markings were accurate. They also managed to put a speed bump in his driveway when they were tunneling under it - big enough to spill a beer. I got pretty lucky with my dead grass and misshapen tree rings.
Re:“Dig once” bill could bring fiber Internet to much of the US
by zafka on Thursday March 23, 2017 @12:34PM
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Where do you live? Miami area?
Re:“Dig once” bill could bring fiber Internet to much of the US
by stronglikedan on Thursday March 23, 2017 @03:10PM
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I'm not a big fan of disclosing my specific location on the internet, so I'll just say South Florida. ;-)
Re:“Dig once” bill could bring fiber Internet to much of the US
by zafka on Thursday March 23, 2017 @04:19PM
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Understood. My contact issue is in my profile. I saw you might be a "neighbor" and wanted to say hello. It is pretty easy to discern where I live, but I have become inured to the risk. :)
They just did this to mine and a few neighbors, even though they weren't supposed to. They had a Ditch Witch (DW) Directional Drill [0] that would tunnel under all the lawns, and only make a little hole every few houses. However, they didn't count on the coral rock, and the DW broke, so they had to bring in a bigger one which was going to take a week or two.
Well, they weren't getting paid if they weren't working, so instead of waiting for the bigger DW, they started digging trenches through the lawns. They did this to about 5% of them, with mine being the last one before the new DW got there. They did resod, but it's all dying because they just threw the dirt back in without putting the soil back on top, and everyone's tree rings and other landscaping are ruined.
All the neighbors are pissed. I had to explain to a lot of them what fiber even was. They still don't understand why I'm too excited to be pissed.
[0] https://www.ditchwitch.com/directional-drills#content-304