Forced outages an outrage

We have lived in the North Table Mountain area for 22+ years. Xcel turned off our power Wednesday morning, hours before there was even so much as a breeze. We’ve had much worse wind. But at least we had power. Over the next four days our power was off for 54 hours, putting us in the Dark Ages along with thousands of other residents.

Xcel needs to fix their flawed infrastructure instead of shutting down the entire system.

And stop wasting our money on PR campaign ads telling everyone how great you are, Xcel. Show us instead.

Communications were inaccurate and misleading. We had precious little time to prepare for this prolonged upheaval. Whoever does weather forecasting missed it by a long shot in our area. Xcel has created an environment of distrust.

If we had a choice of utility providers, it sure wouldn’t be Xcel