Countdown to blackout
November 1, 2012
Webster

After super-human efforts, including a human chain of thirty people passing bottles of fuel up thirty stories to keep a generator on the top floor going for four days now,  it seems that the hosts of this site are about to be defeated, finally, by the unhappy situation in Lower Manhattan.  It is possible they will be denied access to the building for safety reasons.

They are predicting that they may no longer be able to keep all the sites they host alive beyond about 6:30 pm today, Thursday 1 November.  So we might not be visible for a bit  - but I have every confidence the screens will not be dark for long.

Meanwhile, here is a video of salmon crossing the road on a road flooded by the hurricane in Washington:

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