Just tried to splice a fiber line on a pole in the rain last Tuesday near Baton Rouge

I was up there trying to get the cleaver to work with wet fingers and the wind kept blowing my jacket up, and after dropping two connectors into a puddle I just taped a trash bag over the splice tray and finished it blind, has anyone else had to rig something dumb like that on a rainy day?

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harper_wells4d ago

Oh man that trash bag idea is actually kind of genius honestly. I remember one time I was trying to swap out a modem on a roof in a drizzle and the customer kept handing me stuff from their garage like a phone book to sit on. I ended up using one of those big plastic lawn bags to make a little tent over the gear and it worked okay until the wind picked up and it flew off into a tree. The modem got a little wet anyway but it still worked, so I think that bag saved it from getting totally soaked. Sometimes you just gotta make it work with what you got, even if it looks ridiculous from the ground.

beth_butler7523h ago

Ngl though the real pro tip here is using a contractor bag instead of a regular trash bag. They're thicker and way less likely to rip when the wind catches them. I learned that the hard way when I tried to cover a cable box during a rainstorm and the whole thing shredded in like 30 seconds. Plus they're usually black so it doesn't look as janky from the street.

beth_stone23h ago

Contractor bags are a game changer for sure. I've started keeping a few in my truck just for quick covers like that, they hold up way longer than anything else when the weather gets nasty.