By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
The large telephone service outage in Centralia that began on Tuesday continues with no estimate of when repairs will be finished.
A construction crew cut through CenturyLink’s communications cables affecting 1,172 customers.
Splicing of the repair cables continues around the clock, according to a spokesperson for CenturyLink. Spokesperson Brian Dalessi indicated he doesn’t know when it will be fixed.
The incident shutdown landline phone service and Internet service, but not cell phones, according to CenturyLink.
The area affected has been described in general terms only, as mostly west of Interstate 5.
Dispatchers at the Lewis County 911 center indicated on Wednesday afternoon the outage could last for 72 hours.
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For background, read “No phones, Internet for 1,172 Centralia customers” from Wednesday May 20 2015, here [1]