The internet service has been down for the last couple of days. I couldn't do anything significant during the slow down. I couldn't even post comments on my own blog let alone others. Gmail was also down. Youtube? ... forget about it.
All this was because some extra-witty Egyptian fisherman has decided to drop his anchor deep in the Mediterranean. Not only he'd dropped the anchor so deep and hurt one of the cables supplying bites to the Middle East and India, he had also dragged his anchor for 400 meters and cut another main cable in the process.
We could live with one cable cut, but two?
That, in my standard, is unprecedented.
And the fisherman is certainly demented.
Oh yeah, forgot to tell you. There is a sand/wind storm in Dubai as well. Visibility is down to 100 meters. I could sense there was something wrong when I woke up this morning at the sound of the sirens of an ambulance. Oh well, it is true that I live nearby the Iranian hospital, but it was Friday morning. Traffic is usually light on Friday mornings (by mornings I mean 2 PM). So I knew there is something unusual about the weather that is probably causing accidents. I've drawn the curtains open and could see (or rather couldn't see) that the 300 meters far building was completely invisible. For a moment, I panicked. I thought the worst of it till I could make out the hazy effect the sand mist was leaving on other closer buildings.
All this was because some extra-witty Egyptian fisherman has decided to drop his anchor deep in the Mediterranean. Not only he'd dropped the anchor so deep and hurt one of the cables supplying bites to the Middle East and India, he had also dragged his anchor for 400 meters and cut another main cable in the process.
We could live with one cable cut, but two?
That, in my standard, is unprecedented.
And the fisherman is certainly demented.
Oh yeah, forgot to tell you. There is a sand/wind storm in Dubai as well. Visibility is down to 100 meters. I could sense there was something wrong when I woke up this morning at the sound of the sirens of an ambulance. Oh well, it is true that I live nearby the Iranian hospital, but it was Friday morning. Traffic is usually light on Friday mornings (by mornings I mean 2 PM). So I knew there is something unusual about the weather that is probably causing accidents. I've drawn the curtains open and could see (or rather couldn't see) that the 300 meters far building was completely invisible. For a moment, I panicked. I thought the worst of it till I could make out the hazy effect the sand mist was leaving on other closer buildings.
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One of the advantages of a hangover, probably the only one, is that when you finally wake up, you don't worry about shit like this;-)
Hello Abu Fares, howya doin'?
A hangover? I wouldn't know about the feeling. But come to think of it, when you live in the midst of an over-dramatic place like Dubai, you don't really need liquer to get drunk. ;)
I heard about the disruption ,but I didn't know that it was caused that outrageous act of stupidity ,it must be unfortunate for the many businesses that depend on the internet, but I am sure it will be fixed soon .
and about the weather ,we had a storm also a snowstorm instead of a sand one :)
You're one of those people who wake up at 2? LOOOOL!
I think I am the only freak in DXB (other than moryarti) who wakes up around 8 on weekends!
BTW during the sandstorm I was actually in a picnic with 45 other people in Safa park. It was awesome, and really cold!
KJ, make that a third freak, although i stayed put at home during the storm.
DJ, I think a third cable has been severed since (that fisherman must be the parent of a "thanawiya 3ma" kid who just wont get off the net), but I havent noticed any slowdown in Internet speed past Wednesday, which was really really slow.
yup, a 3rd cable is down, cut, whatever.
Make me the 4th freak. Always up before 6 on a Friday.
A comment from my neighbour here in Bristol put me on to this amazing story - I wrote about it on my blog and gave you a mention.
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