I didn't think about the Cloudflare API, but we'll make sure to do it next time. Hopefully, it won't happen again. I want Cloudflare to delegate DNS control to an external provider so it's easy to disable/enable the CF proxy in case something like this happens.
$ ping 9.9.9.9
PING 9.9.9.9 (9.9.9.9): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=0 ttl=53 time=98.011 ms
64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=1 ttl=53 time=96.444 ms
64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=2 ttl=53 time=96.556 ms
64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=3 ttl=53 time=96.769 ms
64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=4 ttl=53 time=104.274 ms
64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=5 ttl=53 time=102.235 ms
64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=6 ttl=53 time=97.185 ms
$ ping 8.8.8.8
PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=0 ttl=45 time=54.808 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=45 time=54.407 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=2 ttl=45 time=55.173 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=3 ttl=45 time=55.058 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=4 ttl=45 time=54.583 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=5 ttl=45 time=54.589 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=6 ttl=45 time=54.645 ms
