Gawker Media and others downed by Sandy

Reports come pouring in about Hurricane Sandy and the massive problems it has wrought so far. From what I can gather, if you are on the East Coast you're either getting completely devastated by this storm or it has passed you over gracefully leaving windy vengeance for another day. NYC is blacked out for the most part, a crane dangles from the rooftops. I will definitely be looking at the NY Post tomorrow. Watching the internet weather report, most networks still seem to be chugging along, but an upshot in packet loss never means good things. Sites like NY Times and WNYC.org are still chugging along (I assume they're hosted with servers in New York based on little to no evidence of my own because I am lazy) but I noticed many sites in the Gawker family are having issues loading. How will I get by without a constant deluge of gaming news or the latest on sci-fi robohookers who play sports? Incidentially, Conde Nast is still afloat. Heroku has been issuing warnings about potential outages since bad weather has befallen them before. AWS looks to be very healthy. The internet will be A-OK through and through, but it is still incredible to me that the largest stock exchange in the world has gone quiet in anticipation of Sandy, bowing in reverence to the awesome power of a force larger than finance. We will see what the morning brings.