The Great WC Account Scare

For those of you who missed it the WC went bat s**t crazy for a few minutes today

There was a panic on the WC

We lost all our accounts

They fell into some cyber hole

and wouldn't come back out 

The PM's they flew back and forth 

Dear God what's going on 

Now all our work has disappeared 

No backup it's all gone 

With sweaty palms and bulging veins 

the panicked writers stared 

into their blank computer screens 

for work that wasn't there 

Then came the WC miracle 

Our work just reappeared 

It was as if nothing happened

That s**t was freaky weird 

I don't know what really happened 

All I got is theories 

A debugging system ran Amok 

Some other kind of query 

Cyberspace is the wild west

anything can happen 

We trust the work we sweat over

To some weird contraption 

Those of us who witnessed chaos

survived to tell this tale 

Make sure you have your work backed up 

If there's an epic fail 

Author's Note

I banged this out pretty quick. It was a scary few minutes on here though.

Reviews

[Lyn Anderson]

I have a feeling there will be a lot of these in days to come. I spent most of today saving all my work to my netbook.

[Baby Ricochet]

I have all my drafts stored off line

[Marie]

I wasn't in on this one. But I remember a time when W/C lost my account, and I had to start a new one.
I keep my work in a file; copy and paste it when I want to post to this site. I also have an external hard drive.

[Baby Ricochet]

All my drafts are stored off line

[Rob Santana]

F****n eh that s**t was scary! I have half of my writings backed up now. I was ready to start a riot in subway yesterday. But really that would've been an excuse just to start some s**t.

[Baby Ricochet]

That's for sure. Thanks for stopping by

[Jack...]

You mean it's fixed now...I was afraid to come out from under the covers. Fun my friend.

[Baby Ricochet]

It is for now. Lets keep our fingers crossed

[Leigh]

Im backing up as I go - the whole internet could go at any moment

[Baby Ricochet]

Good idea. I got all my drafts stored off line

[Leigh]

Good idea too, of course a lot is just written in writing pads, how weird is that? :-)

[Vidya Bacchus]

That was rough everywhere I looked was writingless.

[Baby Ricochet]

It was a tense few moments for sure

[KeeD]

I swear you can make a poem about anything and it turns out amazing. I would definitely read the news paper everyday if everything was explained in the form of a Baby Ricochet poem.

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you Keegan

[Cassie]

I will take the advise on your last stanza, i missed that scare too.

[Baby Ricochet]

Hopefully it's over now

[Pryde Foltz]

I missed the scare altogether. Most glad everything righted itself, however. Yes always back up.

[Baby Ricochet]

It was short. I landed in it on my phone while I was still at work. By the time I got home it was over.

[Baby Ricochet]

I'm glad Baby we are all in here still... with our baby's ;) of heart.
Thank you for penning this!

- Elisa

[Baby Ricochet]

Thanks for stopping by Elisa. It's great to hear from you.

I will come by more my friend, I can't wait... I just lack time... so great to read you too again! always a pleasure.