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Australia, blog, fear, flooding, Humor, isolation, Net coverage, net outage, opinions, Queensland., technology, Telstra, writing
I never realised how much I rely on technology as I did yesterday afternoon, when all of a sudden the Internet stopped working, and I got a shock, because my network coverage on my mobile phone, also stopped. I sat, staring at my screen, and then my phone and wondered. WHAT THE HELL?
Okay, so on contacting Telstra, who diverted me to India (Yeah, they should know what is going on in my country), I was told to hold for ten minutes, while they contacted Australia, to find out what had happened to the service. WELL, they came back and said, that there was a major fault and it would be down from between, 24, to 48 hours.
The look on my face?
Are you kidding me? NO…NO NO NO. But yes, it felt like my link to the rest of the world was gone.
Now to top it off, I went down to the supermarket, to stock up, and for those that know me, I live in Central Highlands, North Queensland, which is gripped by torrential rain and flooding. Needless to say, the trucks can’t get through due to some dams having burst their banks and flooded the rivers further south. So, there was a lot of fresh products, bread, milk, fruit and vege and national newspapers missing from the shelves.
Okay…so I bought up what I could, stocked up. Thought in my mind was, what if my town gets flooded in, and there is STILL no network , no eftpos, no banking…cause we all rely on the Internet.
So..you can imagine how isolated I really feel. The last time this town was flooded, nearly 80% went under, and took months to get back on its feet.
Well, at about 2.20pm the net finally came back on. Now at least I can see the radar sites, on the coming rain, and keep up to date with the flooding situation and truck movement from the south. Its amazing really, I live 3.5 hours from the coast line, but once the rivers flood, I feel like I am on an island which is very hard to be reached by road and train. Having no net or cell phone, also had me realise my dependence on it. And it was a truly scary thing.
Latest news from Queensland.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-01-26/properties-flooded/4485652
charlottecarrendar 
Brings to mind that whole “Don’t know what you got till it’s gone.” thing. I feel for you, we had something similar during the ice storm of 1998. Oooo that was a mess. No power, no heat for nearly 2 and a half days. Me, my husband and my kids slept in one bed to stay warm. Add cans of cold soup and peanut butter sandwiches to that. I hope you stay safe during the coming rains. ❤ you.
Thanks hun. I come catch you on the imvu <3333
Missed you bunches ❤
❤
I totally understand!!!
I read your post and it inspired me to write this:
http://brandinex.wordpress.com/2013/01/26/hard-disk-error/
THIS IS AMAZING!!!! -whams the like button hard-
Totally sympathise. I go into panic mode when my internet connection goes down, and disconnecting then reconnecting doesn’t bring it back up. I’m totally lost without it !
We always reallize how much we depend on things when they are temporarily withdrawn. I’m glad it didn’t last too long and you can connect with the world at last.
Your creativity is exceptional, I enjoyed every bit of your stylish expressions. 🙂
That’s terrible! No access and flooding sounds like a bad combination. So sorry 😦
Yikes…craziness! It is amazing how reliant we can get on technology.