During a blizzard, a technician decides to work from home but is unable to connect to the company's network. Which of the following is MOST likely taking place at the office?

A switching loop would cause broadcast storms and degrade network performance but would not result in a complete, weather-correlated outage.

Incorrect DNS configuration is a persistent misconfiguration unrelated to weather events and would not suddenly occur during a storm.

A severe blizzard can interrupt commercial power to the building, shutting down switches, routers, firewalls, and VPN concentrators. Without those devices operational, no remote connection can be established regardless of the technician's client configuration.

A duplicate IP address is a configuration conflict that would affect only the conflicting hosts, not cause a total site outage correlated with a blizzard.