What a change in the weather, I’ve never seen anything like it. Lightning streaks so low you can see it AND hear it sizzle across the sky and then BOOOOOMMMMM the thunder! All the cameras and equipment luckily keep working, none of it is affected by the EMP. A chap from Air Traffic Control was struck by lightning but luckily is not seriously hurt, something to do with the special design of the Control Tower.
We had a very stressful time just before the weather changed. A problem occurred with one of the payment machines, It suddenly started adding random amounts to some charges when people used credit cards to pay. The ACS engineer came and sorted out the problem or so he thought, every ticket was being rejected at all the machines. We had to shut down all the payment machines and download the tariffs from scratch and do it one at a time, for over 2 hours we had to take cash from people and then manually raise the barriers to let people out. I think it cost the airport a lot of money.
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