Happens every so often. Our server-management company Linode had to do emergency maintenance that took WSB (and likely others) down for about half an hour but it’s back now. Any time you can’t access WSB, if it’s an issue that’s totally taken our site down, we will still honor our commitment to report breaking news, primarily via Twitter (where you can see our tweets at twitter.com/westseattleblog even if you’re not a regular user of the service), and if longer-form coverage is necessary during a WSB outage, we’ll use our other site White Center Now, which is hosted with a different company. Thanks for your understanding!