Siri not working for at least 2 days

Has anyone else noticed that since yesterday, Siri is failing repeatedly?

I am on Verizon, have excellent coverage and have rebooted the phone. Despite that, Siri fails... usually mid-short-sentence it will cancel, or the submission to Apple's cloud takes too long and it times out. There isn't an issue with bandwidth or coverage here, I've used both cellular and WiFi.

I don't feel I should pay for a support incident for what is apparently an infrastructure issue.

Does anyone else have info about what's going on? I took it that the DNC was just generating too much traffic via the network and Siri was having seisures. But by today, it should be working.

Thanks.