kelticheart
October 15th, 2014, 01:30
Hi everybody!
On Monday a huge rainstorm hit this area and, in this area, we were all :monkies:since a couple of hours ago.
The telephone company Telecom Italia HQ went under water, as two rivers meeting right in the city flash-flooded 1/3 of uptown Parma, dragging vehicles, rocks, uprooted trees, mud and all kind of debris through the city streets.
I cannot remember something like this happening since I was born and newspapers report there isn't any record of floods even in the past.
So, no telephones or Internet for almost 48 hours and connections are still faltering every now and then. No banking or working ATMs either, all the obvious consequences of an almost total communication blackout.
Thank God, at least, no one drowned, as these are are all intensely populated areas.
The area where I live was not affected by the flood, yet we had a thunderstorm with torrential rains lasting almost 4 hours in a row over our heads! All of this is happening after this year hideous summer, when it rained all along every other four or five days. We practically went from springtime directly into fall, skipping summer altogether. The ground is so soaked with water that it can't absorb a single drop anymore and rivers flood, inevitably, immediately as new rain falls. So much for those who still hold that the global weather changes are only a joke!
Being unable to use any type of telephone, home or mobile, watching the browser screen with the dreadful message that no connection could be established, offered more than one subject to meditate about.
First of all, Internet is not so invulnerable as many people think it is. Developed by military minds in the late 1950's who wanted an alternative way to communicate in case a nuclear attack would have destroyed the phone lines, here it was completely obliterated by a single flood which sent underwater the national phone company HQ.
Secondly, we all take for granted a lot of things that could disappear instantly, if someone or something pulled the plug somewhere.........:disturbed:
"Hal, open the door please........"
Cheers!
KH :ernaehrung004:
On Monday a huge rainstorm hit this area and, in this area, we were all :monkies:since a couple of hours ago.
The telephone company Telecom Italia HQ went under water, as two rivers meeting right in the city flash-flooded 1/3 of uptown Parma, dragging vehicles, rocks, uprooted trees, mud and all kind of debris through the city streets.
I cannot remember something like this happening since I was born and newspapers report there isn't any record of floods even in the past.
So, no telephones or Internet for almost 48 hours and connections are still faltering every now and then. No banking or working ATMs either, all the obvious consequences of an almost total communication blackout.
Thank God, at least, no one drowned, as these are are all intensely populated areas.
The area where I live was not affected by the flood, yet we had a thunderstorm with torrential rains lasting almost 4 hours in a row over our heads! All of this is happening after this year hideous summer, when it rained all along every other four or five days. We practically went from springtime directly into fall, skipping summer altogether. The ground is so soaked with water that it can't absorb a single drop anymore and rivers flood, inevitably, immediately as new rain falls. So much for those who still hold that the global weather changes are only a joke!
Being unable to use any type of telephone, home or mobile, watching the browser screen with the dreadful message that no connection could be established, offered more than one subject to meditate about.
First of all, Internet is not so invulnerable as many people think it is. Developed by military minds in the late 1950's who wanted an alternative way to communicate in case a nuclear attack would have destroyed the phone lines, here it was completely obliterated by a single flood which sent underwater the national phone company HQ.
Secondly, we all take for granted a lot of things that could disappear instantly, if someone or something pulled the plug somewhere.........:disturbed:
"Hal, open the door please........"
Cheers!
KH :ernaehrung004: