WSB was down for more than two hours this afternoon – along with a number of other sites whose servers are managed by the same company. That’s the longest outage we’ve experienced since changing server managers two years ago – the company with which we work, WiredTree, is usually fabulously reliable and fast to fix problems (their last notable problem was a 45-minute outage 9 months ago). We’re awaiting their full explanation of what went wrong, but in the meantime, we want to let you know that we always have alternate channels you can check in case there’s a problem here: Twitter (@westseattleblog), Facebook (WS Blog), and on the Web, our main backup is our White Center site, whitecenternow.com – its server is managed by a different company, in a different city, so it was up the whole time WSB was down, and there’s little chance that one problem in a certain geographic area can take out everything we use to get you information. Thanks for your patience, and now, on with the news – we’ve got several new stories in the works, and we’ll be at the first Christmas ship stop in a couple hours (5:15 pm at Seacrest), never mind the rain (remember two years ago when that stop immediately preceded The Snow?).