Online Usage Plummets in Battered Gulf - New York Times

"The statistics make it look as if someone just flicked a switch and turned off the Internet, and that's not too far from the hurricane truth. In the battered Biloxi-Gulfport region of Mississippi, where about 160,000 people might go online during a typical weeknight, Internet usage had fallen ''below reportable levels'' by Tuesday, according to the tracking firm comScore Networks."