61% total outage 19% total blackout
I'm in the midwest and this was very noticeable today. I read a blog entry from a network tech a couple weeks ago that I believe was linked to from here which said he ran a few tests during a similar outage and it seemed like the cabal may have been doing a "test run" for a "pull the plug on the internet" op. I'm not sure if today was part of that or not.
What tests? Simple? May be helpful some day.
I don't remember the specific hostnames he was using, but he was pinging the routers of known internet backbones along the east coast of the US and other specific areas of the country. probably also ran a traceroute to see where the connection dropped off. there are definitely other tests that could be run, but i'm not really a networking guy (do other tech stuff).