The contractor was looking for a plumbing leak “that threatened highly sensitive equipment,” according to NBC4.
DCist wasn’t dead yesterday, but it was barely twitching. With “degraded performance” issues crippling Amazon Web Services, Gothamist LLC’s websites suffered the consequences.
Bad news right now for anyone who needs a constant chat stream with their co-workers: Google Talk is malfunctioning this morning, and Google, while aware of the outage, isn’t saying when it might come back online.
Twice during the weekend, Metro passengers across the system found themselves idling at stations for more than half an hour, the result of a failure in one of Metro’s central computer systems.
An international interruption in BlackBerry services is now affecting North America, which means that a majority of people inside offices on Capitol Hill and along K Street are probably running around wondering if they should crack each other’s heads open and feast on the goo inside.
It might be little solace to those without power this morning, but the electricity is apparently out at Vince Gray’s Hillcrest home, too. The Mayor’s is but one of the hundreds of thousands of people around the region who can’t turn on the lights this morning, reports the Post’s Nikita Stewart. Through his spokeswoman Linda Wharton-Boyd, Gray reportedly said “it’s my turn. I have to share the burden, too.” Can you feel the shared suffering,…
Comcast’s internet service went down on Sunday evening. (Of course, not that you’d have known it by looking at the company’s “Outage Check” website at any point last night.) Twitter blew up with complaints about the outage, and the service disruption is affecting a large portion of the East Coast.
It appears that Pepco’s outage map, having been constantly accessed by people wondering exactly how many people in their neighborhoods are without power, has crashed. The utility has reverted back to the previous (read: less snazzy) version of its outage map, but loading is very slow at the moment, barely getting past Germantown in my most recent go. I suppose it’s strange that the fact that a map which depicts the number of people who…
Pepco reports that nearly 500 customers in their service area — a large concentration of which are in Northeast D.C. — are still without power this morning after last night’s lengthy storm. In their usual “weather was bad, eh!” report this morning, the Post notes that at a minimum, 28,000 homes and businesses lost power overnight. To think: without electricity, you wouldn’t have been able to watch ESPNNEWS on repeat for three hours waiting for…
The District Department of Transportation is reporting multiple traffic signals are currently out on Constitution Ave. NW. As of 4 p.m., all traffic lights were out between 12th and 15th Streets, and DDOT was warning drivers to expect significant traffic delays as a result. DDOT says traffic control officers have been sent to the scene to assist the MPD and U.S. Park Police with traffic control. Repair work has already been ordered, but as…
