Around 1:30 PM today, we got a few notices popping up in management apps that some network links had disappeared.
Luckily, all links were set up in a redundant fashion, so the actual production environment didn’t really notice a thing.

After some tracing and checking, we were fairly certain that /somewhere/, /someone/ had cut through a fiber optic cable.
Right at that moment, I glance out the window and see a bulldozer driving by. Even though my first thought was “no way”, it turned out to be true.

They had actually cut through the line right outside my window. About 2 hours after the first phonecall to our provider, the people coming to fix it arrived.
At approximately 8:30 PM, all the 24 lines were nicely reattached again.