Last night and early this morning, CST American, same as you , everything was fine. But the server started going majorly buggy for me around 7:30 am. Eventually gave up, did my miserably sick day at work, came back, saw this thread and figgered "Heck, I better hold off playing a while".
Now that I've tried it again, post time, I see things are as they were this morning.
CST. 'Merican. [not good with the GMT conversions]
Here's a question for the DMs: Is it dropping more often now with more of us that are higher level? If we have any idea of what's causing the crashes, we might be able to avoid a few of them.