They usually hand out tin foil hats to the dig crew. A clear give away and easy to spot too. Next?
On 6/2/09, JC Dill <jcdill.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > Elmar K. Bins wrote: >> jcdill.li...@gmail.com (JC Dill) wrote: >> >> >>> Why do they "watch" and "monitor" rather than proactively go >>> out and say "watch out, there's an unmarked cable here" and keep them >>> from cutting the cable in the first place? >>> >> >> *snicker* >> >> You ever been to a construction site? >> > Yes. We have a number here to call "Before You Dig" and they send > people out to mark where underground utilities are. It would be > trivially easy for one more set of jump-suited and hard-hat-wearing > people to show up during this phase of the project and mark one more > line. For the most part the construction teams don't know and don't > care who is marking the lines or who is responsible for each, they just > want the lines marked (location and type of line - gas, electric, telco) > so they can avoid cutting them. In this way the marking team would be > "undercover" and the previously unmarked/unmapped line would be No Big > Deal. When an unmarked line is cut and black SUVs show up (the opposite > of "undercover"), the line becomes A Big Deal which is the opposite of > what is intended. > > jc > > > > -- Martin Hannigan mar...@theicelandguy.com p: +16178216079 Power, Network, and Costs Consulting for Iceland Datacenters and Occupants