Our Internet Cable Got Cut.

By DE
@DaddyEvil (137496)
United States
April 5, 2021 6:59pm CST
Pretty and I were doing our normal internet activities this past Thursday when suddenly we couldn't reach the internet. We tried rebooting our computers, checked the modem and router and finally, called our internet provider to see what happened. We use a company called Suddenlink. They said there was nothing wrong with our service... So we went looking... When we moved into this house and had internet installed, Covid had just started. The cable installer brought the cable over and plugged us in but didn't bury the cable. It runs along the line between our yard and our neighbor's yard. Our neighbor mowed the cable. We reported the cable broken Thursday afternoon. Since This was a holiday weekend, we were told we wouldn't get a repairman until today. (Monday) Pretty kept asking me what we did before we had internet. I read 3 books, we cleaned up our yard getting it ready for summer and we cleaned house, getting several things done that we kept putting off for one reason or another. Has someone ever mowed your internet cable in half? The picture has nothing to do with this discussion. That is Pretty sitting on the front porch at our old house. Photo is mine.
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Ms.Chelle
@Chellezhere (5742)
• United States
6 Apr 21
No. But, I was watching Looking For Mr. Goodbar when someone else did, and that cable was attached to the house (so not on the ground). I think he hit it with the weed whacker.
Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) - IMDb
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Directed by Richard Brooks. With Diane Keaton, Richard Gere, Tuesday Weld, William Atherton. A dedicated schoolteacher spends her nights cruising bars, looking for abusive men with whom she can engage in progressively violent sexual encounters.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137496)
• United States
6 Apr 21
I've heard of that happening, too. This is the first time we've ever experience this type of problem. We couldn't believe how much we missed the internet! Yes, I have internet on my phone and can hotspot it, but I don't have unlimited internet on my phone. I usually only use 1Gb in a month so only have 6Gb on it. Since my daughter makes more money online than I do, I hotspotted her computer, instead of mine.
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Ms.Chelle
@Chellezhere (5742)
• United States
6 Apr 21
@DaddyEvil That was sweet of you to do that for her. Once when a big game (I think it was a football game) was about to start, the cable went out. I knew it wasn't just us, because neighbors had all come outside to check with each other. It was a widespread outage, and had been caused my a squirrel chewing through the line at the box.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137496)
• United States
6 Apr 21
@Chellezhere I could stand, barely, not talking with people on myLot for a few days but the internet is where Pretty makes her money. Unless I want to pay for everything, it's better for her to have internet than not. We've lived in this house for a year and a half now and have only met the neighbors who live right beside us. We talk with the ones on our left all the time. The people living on our right... we only talk to them if we are forced to talk to them.
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Eva James
@wolfgirl569 (107932)
• Marion, Ohio
6 Apr 21
We dont have a cable to worry about. But I do get more done when I dont have internet.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137496)
• United States
6 Apr 21
I've spent three hours responding to my notifications since the cable was fixed. I've never paid much attention to how much time I spend online until now. (But I can also get lost talking on myLot and not realize how much time I'm here, too. )
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137496)
• United States
6 Apr 21
@wolfgirl569 I am online just once a day... all day long.
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Eva James
@wolfgirl569 (107932)
• Marion, Ohio
6 Apr 21
@DaddyEvil I sat myself just 2 times a day to be online. That has helped a lot.
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much2say
@much2say (55912)
• Los Angeles, California
6 Apr 21
Ugh! Our cable line can't be mowed over . . . it's above ground from roof to wires on poles. But we've had times where there was no internet . . . usually just a few minutes, but sometimes hours - nothing you can do but wait. I don't mind though because it does make me get back to real life - yah, and get some things done. Felt productive during that time, didn't it ?
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much2say
@much2say (55912)
• Los Angeles, California
6 Apr 21
@DaddyEvil Here, it seems like all the wire stuff is way up there . . . I don't know the technicalities about any of it. They may not get mowed, but I have seen naughty squirrels chewing on them. I don't know what wire it was, but it got chewed on so much that we had to get someone out to put a chew guard there! We have some boxes in the garage still . . . after almost 9 years here . Hope you found some forgotten treasures! I still need to find the milkshake blender thingie .
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137496)
• United States
6 Apr 21
@much2say Some boxes in the garage still? Here I thought you'd make fun of me for not getting everything unpacked within a week or two of moving.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137496)
• United States
6 Apr 21
I'm not sure why the internet cable goes from a pole in the neighbor's yard to our house... I would have thought it was all underground except for the actual hookups themselves. That's how the cables went at the old house. Yeah, some of the unpacking we've put off since we moved here is finally done. We found several items we knew we packed but hadn't found yet.
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Toni
@toniganzon (72517)
• Philippines
6 Apr 21
Nope but my coconut tree leaves did it. You see internet cables here are not buried. They hand in a pole. The pole is right out of the gate and the cable goes to the roof. So when one of the coconut leaves fell, it fell through the cable.
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Toni
@toniganzon (72517)
• Philippines
6 Apr 21
@DaddyEvil We cut off all the leaves after that.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137496)
• United States
6 Apr 21
Oh, wow! I bet you weren't happy with the coconut tree, were you?
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RasmaSandra
@RasmaSandra (80659)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
6 Apr 21
The worst Internet nightmare I experience was last August, Suddenly a wild thunderstorm zapped our cable box and ended our Internet. It took 3 weeks fo get the Internet back and 5 visits from the phone company, I was going crazy but had plenty of videos to keep me company plus books to read.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137496)
• United States
6 Apr 21
OMG! My daughter would go insane if she had to do without internet for that long! Why did it take so long and so many repair visits to get everything fixed?
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137496)
• United States
6 Apr 21
@RasmaSandra Oh, wow! I hope something like that never happens again!
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RasmaSandra
@RasmaSandra (80659)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
6 Apr 21
@DaddyEvil the lightning struck and completely blew everything apart so the works are downstairs in my friends' apartment there had to be a part replaced and then the cable put together and something reconnect right by my window It was a big thing but at last, they did it only now whenever a thunderstorm comes I start praying
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Marsha
@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
6 Apr 21
No, no one ever mowed my cable but I've been without internet plenty of times before.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137496)
• United States
6 Apr 21
Once in a great while our internet might go out for an hour or so, but this is the longest we've been without internet since we bought our first computer in 2000.
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rebelann1949
@rebelann (112962)
• El Paso, Texas
6 Apr 21
Awww, she had a kitty. And here I thought you only had sharks. I'm lucky, the cable for my service is underground and no one mows anywhere near it cuz there ain't no grass.
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rebelann1949
@rebelann (112962)
• El Paso, Texas
7 Apr 21
I'm sorry about your walking sharks. The cable guy didn't do a very good job putting the cable underground, will they redo the job to make it safer?
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137496)
• United States
6 Apr 21
That was a stray she was petting. We aren't allowed to have pets, other than my fishies. (My walking sharks passed away a year ago.) Ours is supposed to be underground, too.
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rakski
@rakski (125897)
• Philippines
6 Apr 21
I am sorry to know that. But it never happened to me.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137496)
• United States
6 Apr 21
You're very lucky! Hmm... that means you still have something "fun" to look forward to, doesn't it?
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137496)
• United States
6 Apr 21
@rakski Wow! That's weird! Did you ever find out why they were doing that?
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rakski
@rakski (125897)
• Philippines
6 Apr 21
@DaddyEvil yes. but what happened before in my former internet provider was worse. No cutting of cable but we did not have internet for two months, it will be just on and off
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Shiva
@Shiva49 (26765)
• Singapore
6 Apr 21
Yes, we think the end of the world when such a thing happens but in a way it is back to good old times. I attend to other matters when such happens but counting the hours for things to get back to normal!
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137496)
• United States
8 Apr 21
Yes, we counted the hours, too.
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Kharla Jolly
@kobesbuddy (78871)
• East Tawas, Michigan
6 Apr 21
Our remote stopped working about a week ago. We were in the middle of a program and our reception went out for the remainder of the day. Jay called cable, they tried to reboot, but it didn't work. They mailed us a new remote, then Jay called them to reboot with this new one. So far, it's working just fine:)
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137496)
• United States
8 Apr 21
I've never heard of something like that happening. I'm glad it's working for you again.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137496)
• United States
9 Apr 21
@kobesbuddy It sounds like it might be time to find a new internet provider.
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Kharla Jolly
@kobesbuddy (78871)
• East Tawas, Michigan
8 Apr 21
@DaddyEvil Our service use to be very dependable, now it's not.
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Hanni Harel
@Hannihar (130213)
• Israel
6 Apr 21
@DaddyEvil I often wonder what people did before cell phones were invented. I can see why she asked that. Sorry about him mowing over the cable. That is too bad you have to be put on with the neighbor. See, you found something else to do and hope that the time went by fast for you both.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137496)
• United States
6 Apr 21
I know what I did before we had internet. I used to watch tv (which I haven't done in roughly 14 years), I read books, I worked in my yard and I visited with friends. It's been too cold/rainy to work in the yard and I haven't seen my friends since the pandemic started. *shrug* Yes, we had a good few days, thank you, it did.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137496)
• United States
6 Apr 21
@Hannihar I'm online when I'm reading since my phone downloads the book page by page. Sometimes I don't go out when it is sunny and warm. My doctor told me to stay out of the sun.
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Hanni Harel
@Hannihar (130213)
• Israel
6 Apr 21
@DaddyEvil I see. So you do not read books that you hold in your hands? Those are the only kinds I like because on our Sabbath and certain holidays I cannot be on the computer so like to read and spend time with my cat.
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Kelli M
@spiderdust (14760)
• San Jose, California
6 Apr 21
I'm glad you've gotten reconnected! Or at least I assume you have and aren't posting from your phone.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137496)
• United States
8 Apr 21
Thanks. I can't myLot from my phone. It always says that my password is wrong.
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CarolDM
@CarolDM (203422)
• Nashville, Tennessee
6 Apr 21
A cool photo you shared. Glad internet is back for you.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137496)
• United States
8 Apr 21
Thank you!
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mynameiskate
@mynameiskate (2574)
•
6 Apr 21
I've never heard of this before. My internet went down for a few hours just recently and it felt like a big loss. So I understand but had to laugh at this too because I don't think anyone has given this reason before for downtime.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137496)
• United States
8 Apr 21
Our internet has gone down before but only for short times. It wasn't so funny to us, though.
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mynameiskate
@mynameiskate (2574)
•
8 Apr 21
@DaddyEvil Just goes to show how dependent on the internet we have become.
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snowy
@snowy22315 (182000)
• United States
6 Apr 21
Yikes, no but I could see how it could happen.
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Sanjeev
@sjvg1976 (41289)
• Delhi, India
6 Apr 21
Sorry to hear this and good too as that's the reason you finished books and cleaned your house
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137496)
• United States
6 Apr 21
Thanks. Yes, the house looks neater with more stuff put away and the housework done.
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Four Walls
@FourWalls (68918)
• United States
6 Apr 21
I think my internet cable is strung up on the poles with the electric wires.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137496)
• United States
8 Apr 21
At our other house the cable was underground but when they installed it here it was just left lying on the ground.
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Anna
@LadyDuck (472004)
• Switzerland
6 Apr 21
Oh my, this could sound funny, but it is not funny at all. No one ever mowed our Internet cable, but when we built the external garden room, those who came to work CUT the big pipe will all the electric cables to our home. They immediately called the electrician and the problem was fixed the same day.
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Anna
@LadyDuck (472004)
• Switzerland
8 Apr 21
@DaddyEvil No one got electrocuted because there are very well done "life saver" cabinets, as soon as they touched the cables the power was disconnected, but they were already damaged.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137496)
• United States
8 Apr 21
It's funnier now than it was while the problem was going on. Oh, wow! Did anyone get electrocuted when they cut the lines?
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137496)
• United States
8 Apr 21
@LadyDuck That's nice! As far as I have seen that type of installation isn't done here. One of my brothers spent several weeks in the hospital once when the bulldozer he was operating accidentally cut through buried power cables.
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Greg
@xander6464 (44390)
• Wapello, Iowa
6 Apr 21
I have satellite so every time it rains or snows, I go through that. And there's no choice, there are 3 companies available here and they all have the same service for about the same price.
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Greg
@xander6464 (44390)
• Wapello, Iowa
6 Apr 21
@DaddyEvil Before I moved to the country I had cable Internet and I really miss it. It was a little more expensive but when it becomes available here, I am going to get it. If I live that long. It's taking forever.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137496)
• United States
8 Apr 21
@xander6464 But you say you're 27, so surely you'll live long enough for them to finally reach you with cable internet.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137496)
• United States
6 Apr 21
Oh, that sucks! There are five internet providers here. Two satellite providers who charge over $100 for unlimited internet and three cable internet providers. Suddenlink charges $64 a month for unlimited service. Their service is faster than the others and they don't shut it off in the middle of the night like the other two cable service providers. (Pretty uses 799 Gb a month and I use 30 Gb a month.)
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Lenore Plassman
@sallypup (61575)
• Centralia, Washington
6 Apr 21
You could have roasted marshmallows. I'm sorry that happened.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137496)
• United States
6 Apr 21
Yes, we could have but didn't think of that. We do have a nice pile of branches in the back yard now... We still could have a weenie roast one of these days. Would you like to come and have some fun?
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