To put it in no uncertain terms, I was screwed. It was 5am, and the network was down. The network was down because the core routers had crashed. Yes, both of them, master and backup. And to make matters worse, this was only 12 or so hours after the network was down because the switches had crashed. Yes. All of them.
Have you ever even heard of something like that? 3 switches? core dumped?! Well, pull up a chair brother, and let me tell you the tale. I was THERE. Hell, I was even responsible.