5/29 at 5pm: Significant Verizon Outage (Houston and Surrounding)

Appears we have a pretty widespread Verizon outage affecting much of Houston and some surrounding areas (I've heard from people in Arkansas and Louisiana who went down at about same period). Houston is being hit fairly hard by the outage in terms of reports. No voice, text or internet for many.

Just FYI for those who are wondering why calls are not going through or waiting for that hot date to text you back with plans.

EDIT: Just got service back in NW Houston (6:24pm CT). Hope same for everyone else.