The day the music died

I was enjoying a re-watch of a Clint Eastwood film, one of those ones with the monkey and lots of fist-fighting. Our power grid was unaffected so there was no warning that Telstra Tower was in straits. I did not, however, consider the prospect that we had been EMP’d.

Natures way of turning off bad TV like Water World.

was watching waterworld,,,,seen it blink and go out,,,,changed channels seen there was nothing,,heard the thunder…
Thought the storm was freaking out the channels….read a book and went to bed…
Deal with it

nerds

I was staying with a friend last night. They have a Unninterrupted Power Supply powering their TV and computer. It activated for a few seconds then the TV went dead. Both of us know a lot about thermonuclear warfare and the effects of electromagnetic weapons so we kind of freaked then started checking if we could start up computers and if our watches were still working. It was a tense few minutes till we concluded that we had not been the victims of a nuclear attack. It was pretty worrying because not only were we unable to pick up any TV channels but outside we could see flashes of light in the night sky but were hearing no thunder.
Yes folks, this is what happens when geeks get deprived of TV. Eventually we concluded that lightning must have hit the local transmitter. We felt a little relived and decided that all was okay in the world again. It was a bit freaky though as it happened just before midnight so we were expecting to be invaded any moment.

lol oops me, I should’ve come here first. I didn’t know we lost TV stations as well. It was pretty pathetic offerings anyhow, thus why I was putting up with the one small loop they call the party mix. I was hopeful you see because the night before (the cold mix I think) was a little fantastic from what I heard.

The commercial FM stations were down – well 104 and 106 anyway

No great loss IMO.

Doozy of a storm tho!!

Storms… lol

The commercial FM stations were down – well 104 and 106 anyway – that was some storm around 1am!

ABC, SBS and Prime are back.