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On 4th May, a lightning strike to an in-ground communications cable disabled the Australian 000 emergency services (dial 000 for emergency relief in Australia). The telephone company had a back-up contingency system, but that also failed. As a result, at least one emergency resulted in injuries which were worse than they would have been if the emergency service call had been successful. It was a case of a complicated system being bedevilled by too many faults in more than one sector.

The important cable box was buried on a country road in an out-of-the-way rural area many miles from any metropolitan city, but due to its devastation, it caused communications failures on various computer servers in 5 out of 6 states of Australia, including the 000 emergency services phone lines, and also traffic lights at Victorian intersections.

The interesting thing here (apart from a complete balls-up by our major telephone and communications provider) are the astrological influences at the moment, which can cause disruption, with the quality of "out of the blue" or "as lightning strikes".

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-04/telstra-triple-0-meltdown-explainer/9726266

When one is not working, services are redirected to the other two, except this time something went wrong.

Telstra CEO Andy Penn said the lightning strike not only affected one of the three "links" but also a router which is responsible for redirecting calls to the other two.

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This is the ground zero spot where the lightning is said to have struck the buried cable box (Telstra infrastructure).

http://www.news.com.au/national/emergency-000-number-hit-by-outage/news-story/1d6ccafe80f8a8bd33e75b9de0aa2c32

Telstra believes lightning struck the cable pit in the NSW central-west about 2am on Friday, which resulted in “intermittent” issues with calls to emergency services in NSW, Victoria, Western Australia, South Australia and Tasmania.

The cable, which is one of three major fibre links across the nation, was restored just before midday and services have returned to normal, Telstra chief executive Andy Penn said.

“We have three major links around the country, the services basically failover to the other two,” he told reporters in Melbourne on Friday. But, he explained, a fault in the network’s routers caused some calls to emergency services to drop out instead of being transferred. “We’re all very concerned to ensure the emergency services system works and is there for the community,” Mr Penn said, adding the router glitch was being patched.

“There is redundancy and resilience built into that system but the sequence of events has had an impact on some services.” The incident has raised serious concerns about the reliability of the triple- zero service, with Federal Communications Minister Mitch Fifield asking his department for a report.

Below is a link to the most up-to-date astrology forecast by Rick Levine. (my bold emphasis on the summary to the video clip).

Rick Levine Astrology Forecast for May 2018

BREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO! Revolutionary Uranus shifts into stable earth sign Taurus on May 15 to shake the ground upon which we stand. Plodding Taurus likes change to be slow and steady, but Uranus is sudden, like lightning. Breakthroughs won’t be easy, but they will be intense. Meanwhile, expansive Jupiter retrogrades into the second of three trines with dispersive Neptune on May 25, a defining aspect for the entire year. Consciousness overflows its banks and reshapes the land.

Meanwhile, Mercury finally leaves the shadow of its recent retrograde as communication heads into new territory. The days leading up to the Taurus New Moon on May 15 are unstable and can change everything. Mercury enters Taurus on May 13, Mars enters futuristic Aquarius on May 16, Venus enters nurturing Cancer on May 19, and the Sun enters restless Gemini on May 20. The Sagittarius Full Moon on May 29, along with Mars shifting into Gemini the same day, put communication on the front burner. Slow motion will never seem so fast!


Australian Federal Government is going to wish they paid more attention to the astrological weather signs!

There's another one about to unfold which I can see coming like a runaway train - the much vaunted and late-to-be delivered new Children's Hospital in Perth, still suffering from legionella bacteria infections in the building before it has even opened. Date of opening? You guessed it. May 14th!
 
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Lila

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Wow, that is a cool connection (or lack of one):cool:
 

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Another good reason to know your neighbors and who has medical knowledge.
 

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