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Article: Putting a Perfect Storm Behind Them.(Cox Communications Inc., Louisiana)
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- Multichannel News
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- February 19, 2007
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By Linda Moss
After Katrina, Cox's Louisiana Systems Faced Recovery and Consolidation In 2006
As Hurricane Katrina loomed 18 months ago, a so-called "red team" from Cox Communications' New Orleans cable system evacuated to Baton Rouge, La., roughly 75 miles northwest.
The members of that New Orleans emergency team, more than 100 employees, took refuge at Cox's Baton Rouge cable system. The team prepared to use Baton Rouge as a base of operations until it could return to the Big Easy.
Little did the New Orleans team, or Cox's Baton Rouge employees, know that they were about to endure a catastrophe of biblical scope.
"The ...