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Originally Posted by ChalkLine
When surges occur on civilian phone lines back in last century the 'scissors' up in the transformers blow off. You have to physically climb up there and push them back in.
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As was said earlier - you would need the lines in operation first - again a nice adventure there where you are sent out to guard the people putting the lines back in operation or manning a switching station
Most likely there would have been repairs done to the lines in 1998 as much as possible before things started to go to hell - i.e. per both V1 and V2.2 there was an attempt to repair damage and get things put back together while there was still fuel left and electricity being generated. They would have concentrated on getting lines back up to things like military bases, hospitals, critical war production centers, refineries, etc.. - so a lot of the country wouldnt have gotten fixed in that time.
By 2000 repairing the lines in general would be something you would see for sure around Colorado Springs and Western NY where there is still power being generated in order to show that civilization was being restored - even if a lot of the rest of the country was anarchy