About 50,000 lose power across Denver area as winds hammer Front Range

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2. It wasn't that bad... as weather. Xcel was more useless than normal, though.

I had a relative in a nursing home in the blackout zone. Nursing home has generators, so life-critical stuff kept working, but comfort stuff was off-line. In that area, the nursing home is the only customer, so Xcel considered them a "low priority", not realizing that 300 people in assisted living and nursing care needed power. The nursing home was without power for over 24 hours.

My relative was circling the drain anyway, and electricity would not have eased her passing nor prolonged her life. But the poor staff had to work twice as hard, and holiday shifts are always hard anyway.

I am so irritated with Xcel.