Suffering from shutdown

I’m now suffering anxiety like a PSTD victim since the outage. Every time there is wind or a red flag notice I worry about another power shutdown. The last one cost me five days in a hotel, loss of food getting thrown out and loss of work because I work from home. I ended up getting sick during this time and had to go to urgent care. I wish someone could assure me that I am safe in my home because I’m am living in fear.

There Has to Be a Better Way

I was out of power for six days. When Xcel finally tried to restore my power, ten minutes after the power came back on I heard my neighbor shouting that there was a fire and I looked out my window and saw flames. I immediately grabbed my dog, jumped in my car and evacuated from what ended up being a three-acre fire on Wild Turkey Trail off Four Mile Canyon. I'm not exaggerating when I say it was the single most stressful event of my life. This came after six days of having no power and the daily struggles that…

Let’s Organize for a Better Way

I lived blocks away from the power shut off locations. I was greatly relieved to have kept my power but held so much empathy for my neighbors in walking distance who did not have power.Throughout this experience, I felt emotional for those directly effected and after reading through some of these stories I am so very sad for their experiences.Our children missed half a week of school due to the power being shut off. The issue being, once the power is off - it takes days to be turned back on. Hardly a whisper of wind in our area. I’m…