Internet Outage! Internet Down People Forced to Talk Face to Face

Due to a major internet outage from Virgin Media and Verizon that affected everything from G-Mail to Blackberry users, people were forced to talk to each other face to face - it wasn't pretty. Some people were...

Gmail is Down - September 1, 2009

Gmail is experiencing a widespread service disruption today, confirmed by numerous Internet users and Google itself.  Google has announced that it expects the issue to be resolved by approximately 5:15pm ET. You can report an issue or check the latest status at...

Twitter is Down - August 24, 2009 at 4:30pm ET

Numerous visitors to downrightnow are reporting that Twitter is currently down, indicating a widespread service disruption.  We've verified that both twitter.com and search.twitter.com are currently inaccessible from our location as well. downrightnow monitors outages at...

Surviving Winter Storms...No Power, No Heat, No Problem!

Being a resident of Michigan my entire life, there is one thing that i have grown accustomed to, and that is crazy weather! I have literally experienced single digit temps with snow one day, 57°F temps the next...

Manhole connector caused massive Vancouver power outage

The cause of a July power outage in Vancouver that left thousands without electricity for three days has been identified as an overheated connector in a manhole. An independent report said that the utility...

4 Days After Ike

Well, the vast majority of us made through the storm, now we have to get through FEMA and a lot of us (1,500,000) are just waiting to get our power on. Survival of the Patience is all we have to work with. Here...

Systemwide GMail Outage

UPDATE | 03:25pm PST -- Gmail is back up. Everyone can relax now. PREVIOUSLY | 03:01 PST Google's Gmail application is down for almost everyone right now, but at least you can still view your account via the...

Voice Report on Vancouver power outage

"This is Rachel Nixon. I'm calling on behalf of the NowPublic team about the Vancouver fires. It's Monday, the 14th of July. As previously reported on NowPublic there are severe power outages in Downtown...

A Chinese YouTube Disappears, Along With Millions Of Western Dollars. Next?

There is speculation that the Chinese government is starting to crack down on what they see as unofficial media.  We'll have to see how this develops as the Olympics starts up.   My guess is that...

Mozilla Outage During Record Firefox Download Bid

Mozilla is going for a world record on its inital release of Firefox 3, but their fans are a bit too keen: Downloading the new browser vesion was like getting Stones tickets, and Mozilla's beleagured servers had...

Power Failure Leaves Washington, D.C. in the Dark

UPDATE: Power's restored. Which isn't to say that perhaps some portions of government aren't still working in the dark.Out of power: the Treasury Department. Apparently, though, Congress is still working. Maybe...

Tennessee - Power Outage Kills Woman In Iron Lung

My heart and prayers go out to the family " A Tennessee woman who spent almost all of her life in an iron lung died after a power outage shut down the machine. The woman, Dianne Odell, 61, had been restricted to...

Iguana causes power outage in Florida

An iguana caused 20,000 people to lose power in Florida.  The iguana unfortunately lost his life after he came in contact with the  high-voltage equipment. "An iguana apparently caused a power outage...

Major Telco Outage in Western Canada

 Sources close to MTS Allstream report that they have experienced a major outage on two OC192 fibre rings causing widespread service failures on telephone and data circuits in Western Canada. The cause of the outage and the estimated repair time are not yet...

Zapped rat causes Stockholm power outage

" STOCKHOLM, Sweden - The electrocution of a fat rat in an electric station Saturday caused a three-hour power outage in Stockholm's central train station, halting elevators and escalators....

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