A blog post from a couple of days back contained a warning from Stewart Rhodes of the patriotic group, Oathkeepers, fingered by the FBI over the Capitol protest on January 6. Rhodes alerted his followers to be prepared for a “comms down” situation in the near term.

And here it is.

On January 26 [27th here in India], there was a major Internet outage from Washington DC to Boston:

“A major internet outage Tuesday from Washington, D.C., to Boston is affecting internet, cloud providers and a number of Google services and Facebook, according to the Associated Press.

Verizon reported via Twitter a cut fiber in Brooklyn, but it’s not clear whether that caused the entire outage. The telecom giant didn’t have any estimate when the problem spot would be fixed.”