Websites knocked offline by super-storm Sandy (BBC)
Americans affected by storm Sandy were unable to access some popular news and commentary websites as power cuts in Lower Manhattan knocked several offline.
Sites such as the Huffington Post, Gizmodo and BuzzFeed, along with all Gawker Media sites, were affected.
Many organisations tweeted that the culprit was a battery failure caused by flooding in a data centre.
The websites went down early on Monday evening as the storm hit.
Many came up with novel ways to deal with the power cut: the Huffington Post published updates on a special page, as well as on its Twitter and Facebook feeds.
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more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20138863
I'm sure the list of affected sites will change, but this might at least confirm for some people that their favorite sites were affected.
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