Mice plague cutting off rural towns About 4000 residents in rural towns were left without phone reception for days as the state’s mouse plague wreaks havoc with connectivity.
Environment by Kaitlyn Hudson-O’Farrell
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Subscriber only Rural NSW s mouse plague has gone viral, with residents left without reception for almost three days when mice chewed through Telstra connection cords. About 4000 residents of Werris Creek, Quirindi and Caroona in NSW s North West Slopes lost mobile service from Friday morning, leaving the rural area with no reception. Quirindi resident Jo McKinnon lost phone and internet usage from 8am on Friday and was forced to drive an hour to Tamworth to do her job as a horse racing reporter.
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Billions of mice marauding through western NSW eating everything in their path. Not just eating things, but nibbling people in their beds and in their homes and cars. Farmers have lost a fortune in prized grain in the plague, which is causing economic havoc across western NSW. Those on the land and living in towns have had no relief from the waves of rodents, which have chewed through home walls, infested schools and devoured harvests following lean years of drought. For Warren farmer Ben Storer, whose town has been overrun by more than a billion mice, the costs have already blown out to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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