This long pause in posting brought to you by: a cut fiber-optic connection between here and Philly.
Between here and Philly, some backhoe driver who might've had to 'have something to wash down his pastrami sandwich' decided to partake in the High Life - and it was Miller Time.
Happened to me at a job awhile back. All new construction in the area and the backhoe driver cut the communications for the entire area - 7 or so warehouses without data connections at all. How do we know it was a backhoe driver? We found the backhoe abandoned in the hole with the cut cables right next to it's scoop.