. Bell telephone magazine . n re-placed with a community dial unit lo-cated on a hillside well above the 80foot stage. Old South oflice atCovington, Kentucky, which requiredsandbag dikes and constant pumpingto keep water out of the basementpower room in 1937, has been trans-ferred to the Hemlock building, on ahigh level. Although the power com- 1945 Outwitting a River on a Rampage 47 panics serving the area ha\c im-proved their phint against Hood too,auxiliary power has been installed inall Cincinnati telephone buildings asa further precautionary measure.\\herever possible, customer equip-ment
. Bell telephone magazine . n re-placed with a community dial unit lo-cated on a hillside well above the 80foot stage. Old South oflice atCovington, Kentucky, which requiredsandbag dikes and constant pumpingto keep water out of the basementpower room in 1937, has been trans-ferred to the Hemlock building, on ahigh level. Although the power com- 1945 Outwitting a River on a Rampage 47 panics serving the area ha\c im-proved their phint against Hood too,auxiliary power has been installed inall Cincinnati telephone buildings asa further precautionary measure.\\herever possible, customer equip-ment has been remo\ed to safe loca-tions. When the Ohio river approaches60 feet (flood stage, 52 feet) and involved in the 1945 flood at Cincin-nati. Of these, 945 were movedtemporarily to new locations, while6,381 were taken out pending re-establishment of service after theflood. Of 115 installations involvingPBX, TWX, and key cabinet equip-ment, there was only one recordedloss, and in total about 268 tele-phones were Telephone poles which broke loose from an inundated pole yard and floated away are towed to a safe harbor threatens to go higher, flood bu-reaus are established in the threeplant district test centers at Cincin-nati, and requests from customers toJiave telephones removed or movedto other locations are directed by theTrafl^ic Department to these the volume of requests makesit necessary, the bureaus are mannedon a 24-hour basis by representativesof the Commercial, Plant and TrafficDepartments. All told, telephones were /// Kentucky In the Owensboro district of Ken-tucky, served by the Southern BellTelephone and Telegraph Company,anti-flood engineering was begun im-mediately after the waters recededin 1937. AH toll lines were raisedto levels that would eliminate anypossibilitv of their being submergedor damaged by floating debris. Sev-eral magneto oflices were convertedto community dial and placed above 48 Bell Telephone Magazine SPRING floo
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