Why Everyone In America Briefly Lost Access To ESPN In The Middle Of The Championship Soccer Match

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/espn-cuts-out-in-the-middle-of-the-spain-vs-italy-match-2012-7

The final of the Spain vs. Italy match is happening right now airing on ESPN, and pretty much everyone on Twitter says that for a couple moments the feed blacked out.

Why?

Big storms in Bristol, CT, where ESPN is located, according to ESPN's Bill Hofheimer, who tweeted

Here's a weather map from Weather.com...

The outage was relatively minor though it comes amid a wild weekend for weather, including a storm in Virginia that knocked down a data center affecting Pinterest, Instagram, and other sites.

And here's a time-lapse video of the storm that crushed Virginia yesterday moving across the midwest, gathering steam as it zoomed east.

Weather 1. Media 0.

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