Hillary Clinton’s server went down ‘for two weeks’ after Hurricane Sandy

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton lost Internet service “for two weeks” after Hurricane Sandy struck New York, disrupting the email server she kept at her home there, she told one correspondent in emails released Monday.

In a message to a friend in Illinois in mid-November, Mrs. Clinton apologized for having been off the grid.

“This reply shows how far behind I am in responding to emails! Between losing my internet/berry service for two weeks during Sandy and jet lagging around the world, I’m not sure what I never received but am trying to crawl out from under the ones that are piled up in my in box,” she said in the email.

The former first lady’s decision to reject use of a State.gov email account and to instead use an account she set up on a server she kept at her home has been questioned for security reasons, but the Hurricane Sandy outage adds another dimension.

The Washington Post reported over the summer that her system crashed “for days,” in an article detailing the FBI’s growing interest in probing Mrs. Clinton’s unique arrangement.