Argh II: The Suckening

Eighteen hours into the TWC outage and according to their perkily apologetic Twitter feed, service will be restored to the Upper East Side sometime between Friday and five minutes ago. Meanwhile 150,000 UES residents are overloading the TWC phone system and swarming the coffee shops and McDonald's that have other providers. At the moment I'm in a midtown Starbucks below the outage but there are no seats and no power outlets. Of course. I shall safari further...