When you get your BIS back up and running please post it here so I (or should I say everyone else) can try it out on their storms and other various blackberry's
As of right now, I have gotten past the "unable to connect" message and now I am showing "You account has been suspended, please contact you system admin"
As of 8:13pm (Central time) my email is working normally again.
edit: I have received same emails over and over again for the last hour and have not gotten any of the newer ones that are showing up in my email account on my computer... so not fixed for me.
RIM Servers were down in various parts of the country (US anyway). Had nothing to do with the Storm, .99, VZW or anything, it was the RIM mail servers. My mail just came back up (had 22 of them all come in at once!).