caersidi:
I felt a great disturbance in the Internet, as if millions of geeks suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened. - comment by MsGeek@slashdot.org about the SF power outage.

Here is article on Slashdot about the outage. Interestingly, initial reports were of that the outage was caused by a drunken employee.

aryas_zehral:

http://status.livejournal.com/ is back now but LJ itself isn't. The status page doesn't have anything useful on it just this:

"LiveJournal is down. There has been a power outage at our data center. We are working as quickly as possible to restore service."

But it's something, right?

caersidi:
LJ is back-up and there a news item has been posted.

janet_mayfire:
LJ is back up. I've managed to log on, and the database (at least as it affects me personally) doesn't seem to be affected. It's a bit slow, but it's up.