UPDATE: server came back online. It was offline for 32 min. According to the logs, it lost the connection on eth0 but didn't go down. Looks like the ISP forgot to put their switch on a UPS or something.

The eye doesn't pass over there until later tonight, so I'm not "out of the water" yet.

luckily, I'm 200 mi. away in SC waiting it out in relative comfort.