Google Reader Losing People's Feeds

TechCrunch points to a Google Groups thread where some members are reporting that Google Reader Lost their feeds

We see this. (Yikes.) Please accept our apology for this outage,
everyone on the team is working to see what's causing the problem and
we're figuring out how we can solve this issue.

(name removed)
Google Reader Engineer

Reports are starting to trickle in that they are coming back but this does highlight how many people are so dependant on Google for so many facets of their online life/work/play