O2 tell us this morning that a flood has taken out the Burne House Paddington telephone exchange in London – they have 115 cell sites down as a result. Apparently fire engines have been seen pumping water out.
Funnily enough The Register is reporting a similar story but this time the Paddington Exchange is down because of a fire!
I suppose they could both be right – pump in water to put out fire – pump water back out afterwards!
It ain’t April 1st until tomorrow so it must be true.
5pm Wednesday – latest news is that the exchange will be down until midday on 2nd April – you heard it first on trefor.net !
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It was a fire. My brother is a BT engineer and is there trying to get the TfL system up and running again. Expect traffic problems tomorrow because they control some lights at major junctions.
That’s great thanks Nick
Here’s a photo of the flooded exchange, Tref.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/48879906@N05/4480812877/
I hear the Thames has reached record flood levels since they pumped it out and the North Sea is rising at its fastest ever rate:-)
Basically, there was a flood, as a result of the water caused the fire which wiped out all the Nodes that were present underground.
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