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The US Northeast Is Hurtling Toward a Winter Heating Crisis

The US Northeast Is Hurtling Toward a Winter Heating Crisis

(Bloomberg) — In the most densely populated corner of the US, temperatures are about to drop after a stretch of unusually warm weather. And the signs of a winter crisis are already multiplying. Most Read from Bloomberg Heating oil delivered to New York is the priciest ever. Retailers in Connecticut are rationing it to prevent panic buying. New England’s stockpiles of diesel and heating oil — the same product, taxed differently — are a third of normal levels. Natural gas inventories are… Source link

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Widespread internet outages hit northeast U.S., affecting Google and Facebook

Widespread internet outages hit northeast U.S., affecting Google and Facebook

Internet users across the northeast U.S. reported widespread outages Tuesday. In an emailed statement 90 minutes after the outage was first reported, Verizon said it was working on the problem hurting Fios service “throughout the Northeast corridor” and that some service had already been restored. The telecom giant had reported a cut fiber in Brooklyn via Twitter, although it’s not clear if that issue was responsible for the outage. Verizon didn’t give any estimate in… Source link

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AWS, Google service issues reported in Northeast U.S.

AWS, Google service issues reported in Northeast U.S.

Amazon.com Inc.’s AMZN, +1.00% Amazon Web Services revealed internet connectivity issues at one of it’s main data centers Tuesday, as internet issues affecting popular services such as Alphabet Inc.’s GOOG, +1.06% GOOGL, +0.90% Google products spread in the northeastern U.S. At around 11:15 a.m. Eastern, AWS, Google services, and Gmail all started seeing spikes in outage reports concentrated from… Source link

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