For the last two days, between the mid-afternoon (2-3pm ET) and about 5pm ET, I can't access anything on the Net other than local nodes in New England. When running a traceroute to, say, Texas or California, I find that the routing goes from NH to MA and thence to NY, where it completely times out on Sprintnet New York City. Maybe there's a clog in the pipe? But day after day ... ? Coincidence?

We are so very vulnerable. So few major pipes going through metropolitan areas that if just one, such as that Sprintnet pipe in NYC, goes out, the entire Northeast is frozen. We are so very, very vulnerable.