So.....

In Asia, the raid already gone for today. Niantic must pay something back to trainers.

This outage has cost me at least 50k star dust.

Yup. Good news is that you can log in again. Bad news it's SUPER laggy. Don't play the game yet. Many issues need to be resolved.

From what I can tell, I can log on, spin stops and get distance. But I can not catch anything nor interact with gyms.

As someone mentioned above, this outage will likely cost me about 30-40k dust.

At least it's almost guaranteed they will extend the event a few days longer like when PTC players couldn't log in when the Birds first released. Now I can get my 2nd 7day streak Double Candy bonus. Was going to miss it by one day.

Seems to be that way. I go up for about 10 minutes or spin 1 Pokestop or catch 1 Pokémon, and then things lag and Network Errors all over the place. I can't even tap on a Gym because that automatically pauses the game until I close and restart.

Glad it's not just me, but frustrating nonetheless.