Well, that was exciting... Apparently, our hoster, Galaxy Visions, was completely screwed by a lightning strike last night; from their email:
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"Initially we were informed that the lightning had melted the transformer cables and they would need to be replaced at daylight however upon further inspection our facilities main transformer which was struck by lightning exploded and produced loss of power from Con Ed and at the same time disabling our generators. Our entire technical staff as well as electrical staff has been on site all night...
"We are in the process of having a new transformer craned onto our facility's roof and at the same time installing a redundant transformer if another act of god should happen in the future. This has been the longest outage in GalaxyVisions history..."
Which was why we were down for the day. Occasionally one is reminded that we still live in the phenomenological universe.
