tomatoes
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Post by tomatoes on Jul 7, 2017 9:43:37 GMT 10
Ooh exciting, I love these We would give the real estate agent written authorisation to sell our house on our behalf (with a caveat that sale price needs to be above a reserve or no sale), then attempt the two day drive interstate to family. We were gonna do it soon anyway - Since our work/income is all www based, nothing to do for now so might as well go on holidays a week early... Selling your house seems pretty dramatic given the few events in the scenario already given. What is it in the scenario that has made you take that action? I know there is the bit from the hospital, but the internet has only been down a day or so. I'm curious how much action people would really take with internet down for a day. Remember with that recent computer virus that hit hospitals and doctors etc mostly overseas the medical services mostly closed down because they couldn't provide service without records etc. So I'm looking at this scenario and thinking that I would prob be telling myself it was just a glitch, the hospital thing was a coincidence and I'd watch and see for a day or two. I'd prob try to get more than usual out of the freezer and through the dehydrator, and I'd be trying to log onto news sites every hour or so - with no success. I might call family members to check in on them and for some of them in the city, make sure they have my address just incase - but I'd say it in terms of if they have a few days off because on no internet they could come for a little holiday - I wouldn't reveal that I was concerned.
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Post by Ammo9 on Jul 7, 2017 10:38:42 GMT 10
A town in vic was without phones and intetnet, eftpos and credit card facilities for around 1 month.
Nobody died or rioted or anything. The banks held more cash, ATMs a couole hours away got refilled more often and centrelink took a van down there to do cash payments for the dole bludgers.
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Post by ziggysdad on Jul 7, 2017 10:42:21 GMT 10
A town in vic was without phones and intetnet, eftpos and credit card facilities for around 1 month. Nobody died or rioted or anything. The banks held more cash, ATMs a couole hours away got refilled more often and centrelink took a van down there to do cash payments for the dole bludgers. Bid difference when it is one town versus the entire country - all of their support came from outside the town.
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Post by ziggysdad on Jul 7, 2017 10:42:52 GMT 10
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Post by blueshoes on Jul 7, 2017 23:17:45 GMT 10
It just dawned on me that nobody tried to call overseas family/associates for news?
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Post by blueshoes on Jul 7, 2017 23:23:38 GMT 10
Ooh exciting, I love these We would give the real estate agent written authorisation to sell our house on our behalf (with a caveat that sale price needs to be above a reserve or no sale), then attempt the two day drive interstate to family. We were gonna do it soon anyway - Since our work/income is all www based, nothing to do for now so might as well go on holidays a week early... Selling your house seems pretty dramatic given the few events in the scenario already given. What is it in the scenario that has made you take that action? Ha. Nope, the more i read it the less it makes sense. Houae was alreasy on the market, it was more about not sticking around waiting in limbo
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Post by fei on Jul 8, 2017 0:09:36 GMT 10
It just dawned on me that nobody tried to call overseas family/associates for news? Ha, I did! It would actually be the first thing I would do after / during filling the car with petrol. Knowing a bit about what happens in China when something is afoot with civil disturbance, a total shutting down of the internet (regardless of just within a city or a state or whole country) would be a huge red card for me. A few years back we had very slow to non-existent internet access to international websites for a couple of weeks after the undersea telecom cable linking China to the world broke, however, intra-country internet was fine. For the net to be down over a huge area would signal to me that there has been a coup or some other big event that the government does not want broadcast (althought that obviously wouldn't apply to Australia).
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