…so if you’re wondering why Yelp, Craigslist, Libejournal, and Macworld are down, it’s because the whole right half of the city has had intermittent power outages.
Looks like it’s up to Laughing Squid to be our news source. I’m also listenign to KCBS, which says there was an explosion at 2nd & Mission which apparently started this whole thing. Whatever happened, it’s fixed now… or whatever it is you do with things that blow up underground.
Sounds like up to 50,000 people were without power from North Beach to Daly City and it sounds like everywhere in between.
Yeah, it was a real fun afternoon. Right before 2pm the power in our building went away. Since I just moved to an interior office, I’m nowhere near any windows. My office was absolutely pitch black, zero light. Took me a few minutes of fumbling to find a flashlight and make my way down the hall.
My team split up to cover ten floors in our building, check up on users, let them know it isn’t just our building, etc. Power came back on within a few minutes so initially it was just “Reboot, this is a good example of why saving often is important”. Then, just as I was getting done, power began flickering again. It’d cycle off and then back on again every so often, we went through it three times. I pretty much gave up and we all hung around waiting for the lights to stay on consistently and people to get unstuck from the elevators.
From my vantage point, Netflix was down last night with a message that it would be back by 2AM Pacific Coast Time. Then in the morning, it changed the estimated time to 9AM. So it appears to have been down for a long night.