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A power outage at a downtown New York data center on Monday took several popular websites offline, including the entire Gawker network of sites as well as Mediaite and the Huffington Post.

Gawker is temporarily down because the 57th Street Crane just flooded our servers with sea foam, or something. Back with you shortly.

— Gawker (@Gawker) October 29, 2012

New York City residents this morning were worried about shortages of batteries and bottled water, but now users worldwide are facing a sudden and unexpected shortage of places to web surf.

uh-oh, @buzzfeed and @gawker are down? where will i get my GIFs and my snark, respectively? #Sandy poynter.org/latest-news/me…

— Tim Campbell (@TimothyCampbell) October 29, 2012

@gawker and @gizmodo are down?? I guess this means I can actually be productive studying for midterms tonight, but I’m not happy about it.

— k8eddie (@k8eddie) October 29, 2012

Gawker, BuzzFeed and HuffPo are all down. No worries, New Yorkers will continue to snark on. #MournYouUntilIJoinYou

— Stephon Johnson (@StephonJohnson8) October 29, 2012

BuzzFeed, HuffPost, and Gawker are down. So who’s going to make the list of 17 awesome websites that went down during #Sandy?

— Upworthy (@Upworthy) October 29, 2012

What about my LOL cats? RT @techcrunch: Sandy Attacks The Web: Gawker, BuzzFeed and Huffington Post Are Downtcrn.ch/Phy5ID

— Steven Aguiar (@ricenbeats) October 29, 2012

Gawker is down! Reddit trolls, now’s your chance!!

— Mike E (@blackavar) October 29, 2012

Wow. @buzzfeed @gawker @huffingtonpost are down. Holy trinity. If you’re a celeb and plan on doing something stupid now is your chance.

— Jonathan Wald (@jonathanwald) October 29, 2012

Celebs go wild as Huffington Post and Gawker sites go down…

— TT (@TinkaTayla) October 29, 2012

Celebs are welcome to go crazy in real life but are asked to stay indoors and keep tweeting; Twitchy is up and running and going strong.

BuzzFeed and Gawker are down. You may experience an unfamiliar emotional reaction to events. This is known as earnestness and should pass.

— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) October 29, 2012

Gawker, Buzzfeed down due to flooding from Hurricane Sandy. Best. Hurricane. EVER.theverge.com/2012/10/29/357…

— Stabby_ (@Stabby_) October 29, 2012

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2012/10/29/new-york-power-outage-claims-gawker-huffpo-mediaite-buzzfeed-websites/