I think many of us in the web space that are old enough were shaped by the "mass outage" that happened on 9/11 when pretty much all news websites went down while we were looking for information. Slashdot was fighting valiantly to say up and was one of the few sites one could find information on the events (if you were in a spot without access to a cable TV, you were very much in the dark). The web and the infrastructure are substantially different than they were 25 years ago, but I still get a bit of "what if" in the back of my head (not that I work on anything of that level of significance).

When the Yahoo news website was not responding, my reflex was to do a traceroute. The last hop was not resolving, and it was arriving Somewhere in NY. Guess what, they were hosted in the tower. It took a while to get redirected to the West coast.