BOISE, Idaho (AP) \u2014 Many CenturyLink customers across the U.S., including Colorado’s Western Slope, were without internet Thursday amid a lengthy outage that stretched from New York to California.<\/p>\n
The outage began early in the day and continued into the evening. CenturyLink’s network was “still experiencing a disruption,” but the telecommunications company was working to restore services, Monroe, Louisiana-based CenturyLink said in a statement.<\/p>\n
The statement provided no other details, including the cause of the problem and how many customers were affected.<\/p>\n
Jessica Rosenworcel, a member of the Federal Communications Commission, said via Twitter it was a nationwide outage and her agency needed to investigate.<\/p>\n
In Idaho, the internet problems caused the temporary shutdown of phone services at the Idaho Department of Correction and the state’s Department of Education, The Idaho Statesman\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n Some ATM machines weren’t working in Idaho and Montana.<\/p>\n At North Colorado Medical Center in Greeley, Colorado, doctors and nurses for a time had difficulty accessing patient records. Rather than using digital devices, they had to take notes with pencil and paper,\u00a0according to the Greeley Tribune<\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n WyoLotto officials said they would postpone announcing Wyoming’s winning state lottery numbers and winnings for the day until after the outage was over.<\/p>\n