CenturyLink/Lumen is required to perform a preemptive cut and splice of the main fiber optic line between Pagosa and Durango tomorrow evening (11/12/2026 7pm-11pm) to avoid a unplanned outage at a location where CDOT needs to perform emergency repairs on Highway 160.
CDOT is working ferverishly to get the Hwy 160/151 corridor open ASAP and a recently discovered flood exposed conduit is preventing these necessary repairs from commencing.
Like any unplanned fiber cut, during the outage window (7pm-11pm MST), there will be virtually no cell coverage, no CenturyLink, Zito, or Clearnetworx land based Internet, and Visionary will be on their backup microwave link, but probably very sluggish due very high demand. Please plan accordingly.
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