Absurdities

We live in Lake Valley just north of Boulder. Our power was off for the better part of 5 (five) days. Our internet provider went down. Our cell phone coverage is very sketchy even on a good day. Both of these issues are something we would like to see addressed as soon as possible. Maybe a cell tower that provides better coverage for our area or better power backup by our ISP and/or cell providers? In an emergency, medical care would have been delayed at least 30 minutes before we could even contact 911.

Meanwhile, Xcel continued to attempt communication with us by electronic means (with no electricity at our house!). Fortunately, the messages they were trying to send us were totally inaccurate (note sarcasm) and so we benefited from not receiving them.

I don't know the details of the Planned outage and certainly do not want to criticize the line workers who were out in hundred MPH winds restoring power (Thank You!), but it did seem quite excessive in duration and scope. I can't help but wonder how much the Xcel Legal/CYA Department influenced the decisions to leave the power off for 5 days?