Heat waves, thunderstorms, and failed social networks

The heat can disrupt people lives, at times becomes a menaceto ones comfort level. And when you think it cannot get any worse, a thunderstorm shows up destroying properties and lives. Storms ravaged the nations, from the Midwest to the east coast to the dirty south. Now millions are without power during these tulmulous heatwave. Making it next to impossible to catch a good breeze from a floor fan or the icy blast of the Air conditioner. And for those who dodged both found themselves wrestling with the aftershock of the power outage, with appendages of our connectivity to the natural disaster. Parts of our social media outlets took nosedives, shutting off our power to search, post and disconnect on the Internet

When the storm knocked out power for an Amazon data center in Northern Virginia that hosts some popular Web sites, services like Netflix, Instagram and Pinterest went down. Most of the sites were back online Saturday afternoon.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/01/us/storms-leave-2-million-without-power.html?pagewanted=all