Personally, I don't think they should have shut the servers down. Call me insensitive, but tragedies happen every day yet we all ignore them and spend our time complaining that we can't get the empress hairpin to drop. If the Japanese can't be disciplined enough to conserve their own electricity, why should we have to suffer for it? That is something I'd expect from my fellow Americans, not a supposedly smarter society like the Japanese. If SE really wanted to prevent people logging on from Japan, it seems like they could block certain IP addresses or something.

A whole week. I might have to do something drastic... like omg read a book or something!