You Tube is Down

Rather unusal, but youtube.com has been unreachable for the last several minutes. [2:34 p.m. CDT]

[2:48 p.m. CDT] Downforeveryoneorjustme.com says:

[2:58 p.m. CDT]
YouTube lives once more. It will be interesting to see what sort of explanation (if any) comes out.