First, I hope everyone is doing OK out there. I experienced a good deal
of the surreality of CA's complex ecosystem when I lived there a while
back, and I know things can be pretty scary.
Secondly, anyone have any outage-related news for network traffic in San
Diego, San Bernardino, Ventura, Orange, or LA counties?
Peace, and water,
Andy
Besides SBC claiming that they can't provide support service to their
DSL customers in Northern California due to the Southern California
wildfires, no.
John (Happily, not an SBC DSL customer)
13 people killed, 300,000+ acres burned, 700 homes destroyed. Four
counties have been declared major disaster areas, including Los Angeles,
San Bernardino, San Diego and Venture counties.
Earthlink/Mindspring and SBC/PacificBell are reporting local access
outages on their respective public network status webpages. I expect
there are similar local access issues for other networ providers in the
region although they aren't reporting them on their public network status
pages.
I used to have the UCSD network status page, but they seem to have moved
it.
There have not been any reports of backbone circuit problems in or out
of the region by any network providers of which I'm aware.
Andy Grosser said:
First, I hope everyone is doing OK out there. I experienced a good deal
of the surreality of CA's complex ecosystem when I lived there a while
back, and I know things can be pretty scary.Secondly, anyone have any outage-related news for network traffic in San
Diego, San Bernardino, Ventura, Orange, or LA counties?
Thanks for the thoughts. It was a hairy weekend around here.
I've heard from numerous local ISPs (mostly of the DSL/dialup variety)
reporting that trunks to a large number of affected neighborhoods are
completely offline, presumably due to either the widespread power outages
or the consumption of physical infrastructure by the intense flames.
Grant
I thought they were blaming that on sunspots. 
somewhat smoky skies in Santa Barbara, much worse in Ventura. UPSes
are beeping and lights flickering a bit more often than usual. Otherwise
no real network impact here.
California electric grid operators are reporting 70,000 to 80,000
customers are without power due to the fires in Southern California.
The 500Kva Southwest Power Link between Arizon and San Diego tripped on
Monday. Two 775-megawatt plants in Ventura County also tripped; one
plant has been restored. Several other transmission lines have been
intermittant due to the fires.
The FAA's Southern California Terminal Radar Approach Control on Miramar
Air Station near San Diego was evacuated due to nearby fires on Monday.
Althought several people have pointed out various Internet related
facilities and organizations are in the region, as far as I know none
have been significantly impacted by the fires.