Google Docs is down and oh man people are freaked

A collective scream was heard across the internet Wednesday, as scores of people were faced with the same shocking truth: Google Docs was down. 
Docs, part of a suite of Google products, appeared to experience outages Wednesday afternoon — with Down Detector reporting widespread problems with Google Drive across the U.S.
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We reached out to Google for comment, and the company pointed us to a statement on its G Suite page.
"We're aw