On Jan 13, 2011, at 3:50 PM, Brian Walters wrote: > One of the unexpected consequences of the Queensland floods. > > http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/thousands-disconnected-as-floods-sink-telcos-20110113-19oz4.html
Uhh, you couldn't pay me enough. We got off pretty lightly in September. We had a similar issue with the power being out in large areas of the city so the cell towers shut down after a few hours as the batteries went flat. But we had power restored to most places by the end of the day and the underlying network was almost undamaged. I had a tour of our central telephone exchange a few years ago. There's a lot of thought gone into minimising the impact of natural disasters as communications is about the most vital of services in such a situation. Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
