Travel chaos worldwide, be prepared for cancellations. Check news sites for details
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Heaps of problems in Australia, not only with the airlines. Banks, shops, petrol stations but not all.
Problem is with Microsoft’s cloud Crowdstrike apparently.
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Hate to say it but this doesn’t look good.
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My sister is at the airport right now waiting for a flight to go home after visiting me in Germany.
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I am now a train. For the third day in a row, I am arriving on schedule!
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In the UK, thats a miracle in itself, with or without an IT outage!
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@Hallt64 we are either exceedingly lucky or fabulous planners??? In our many trips over the past 3 years we’ve never had a UK train leave or arrive late more than a few minutes EXCEPT the other day when someone had thrown themselves on the line.
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Im in Quitó Ecudar, scheduled to fly to Florida early Sunday. Hoping things are cleared up by then.
Our HO on our current sit have been affected. Had to queue for 7 hours to get a hotel paid for by the airline, and are due to fly out 24 hours later, from a different airport.
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“Full recovery could take weeks.”
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Seriously. What happened yesterday had a much significant impact than flight delays/cacellations than people realize.
It affected major business functions worldwide including banking.
People were not able to do many online transactions we tend to take for granted.
Personally I was not able to access funds and in my sister’s place of business (insurance adjuster for medical management company) they were not able to conduct business as usual and were instructed to cease operations for the day.
Big red flag for me.
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Since we were just hanging out in Edinburgh, the only problem we ran into that I believe may have been impacted by the outage was not getting my email for my hop on hop off bus tickets. The driver let us on and we got our tickets at the main office stop.
@Amparo in Australia some hospitals had to cancel surgery as doctors couldn’t access patient records. Many cashless businesses couldn’t operate. People had to leave trolleys full of groceries at supermarkets because they couldn’t use electronic payments. Very scary how fragile our world is. This is the second time in recent years the universe has sent us a big message. Hope it’s not 3 strikes and we’re out!
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They were only accepting cash at Brighton Pavilion yesterday. Lucky I’d already bought my ticket. We use cash so seldom in the UK, Im on the last 10 quid from 200 taken out last (2023) May!
That’s my point exactly.
Errors caused by technology can create errors in medical records, diagnosis, treatments, banking statements, balances, ability to withdraw, pay, buy food…
You get the idea. We have given all our control away willingly. It’s very scary.
Our world, WE have bigger potential problems we need to be aware of.
#biggergamestoplay #lifeisfragile
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We are getting regular updates from our GP to say they cant access any records. They are currently saying it could be a few more days to sort and if possible don’t call them until they advise things are back to normal. Can anyone remember how to use a pen 
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Good news for an AI takeover though, all we need to do is chuck in some cyber security trojan horses and that will stop them in their tracks 
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lets get back to cash is king huh?
I was lucky - used a credit card x2 for a museum ticket and lunch. But couldn’t take advantage of 50% off drinks at Sbux because it was closed completely.
Current sit HOs are scheduled to fly home from DEN late afternoon today - I’m prepared to defer my departure from Sunday morning to Sunday afternoon or even Monday morning if needbe.
But did confirm for me the need to have some cash in my wallet.
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I always keep emergency cash on hand, especially when I travel. Tech breaks down, though usually not in such widespread fashion. ATMs and credit card machines often don’t work when there are natural disasters. And there can be various small hiccups at anytime.
I lucked out with this outage, because I flew earlier in the month from a sit and have business travel later in the month. If that’s held up, everyone else involved would be, too.