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so we're here right now in Verizon's blood street cable vault this is where all of the local distribution cables that radiate out from the Verizon building to commercial buildings or residential buildings this is where all of that wire line infrastructure comes back to the infrastructure with inside this vault is providing all types of services while video services data services as well as voice service after the storm surge of Hurricane sandy this vault was virtually filled to the top with water and that water table stayed in place for the better part of two days we began a massive pumping operation to get the water out of the vault but we had the challenge of subterranean water in the surrounding area that kept coming into the vault as we were trying to get the water out so it took the better part of two days of a pumping operation for us to overtake the equilibrium of the water in the surrounding area we have air dryer systems that pump dry air through our copper cable infrastructure those systems lost power those systems also were submerged in water and destroyed and once power began to be restored to the West Street office we utilized the opportunity to go down into the cable vault and use an infrared camera to walk along the cable vault in each one of the bays and hold that on to the copper cables and where water had intruded the water meeting the electricity in the copper cable began to create resistance and the resistance created heat and our infrared camera was able to quickly identify where that heat was the copper cable infrastructure serving out of Broad Street both here as well as in the distribution system and our customer location has largely been destroyed our fiber-optic based systems working at the Broad Street office have been uncompromised we're looking at this tremendous challenge that we've experienced here and the impact to service as an actual opportunity and we're taking very immediate steps to remedy this situation by replacing all of this copper cable infrastructure that you see around me with fiber optics it's far too tedious time-consuming and not effective of a process to try to put this type of infrastructure back together to take yesterday's technology and try to restore it this is a challenge for us as far as service restore but it's an opportunity for us to bring in parallel fiber-optic infrastructure add capacity to what we already have here for fiber optics and begin to flesh in the Broad Street Network and the West Street Network with more fiber optics as fast as possible you