Superstorm Sandy

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I've been getting email from, Model Railroad Hobbyist Magazine saying that their server is in NYC and having problems:

The MRH website is hosted at a facility in Manhattan, which, as has been widely broadcast, just got hit by "Superstorm Sandy." As a result, there are a lot of fiber cuts, a lot of flooded basements, and a very uncertain power situation. As we understand it, the first MRH outage on Monday night/Tuesday morning was caused by a the failure of a fuel tank pump when the basement it was in was flooded.

The outage today was caused by two other facilities experiencing problems that effectively cut our hosting facility off.

There may be additional outages - all of these facilities are currently running on generator power as ConEd both waits for the water to recede and then dries out their salt-water soaked substations and transformers.