Why just us?

My power went off at 5:50 AM this morning. It’s now 10 PM and the power here is still off. The latest communication from Xcel, a text message, says that it might be off for days. Yet I can walk about three minutes to the west of my home, across one street and the lights are on. If I go south a couple blocks the lights are on. Essentially, we are a small island of perhaps 50, maybe 100 homes that are dark surrounded by a sea of homes that have power.

The expressed reason for these “public safety power shutoffs“ is for, well, public safety. It’s really quite difficult to understand why it’s necessary to keep our power off when our close neighbors have power. What public safety purpose does this serve? None. This is probably a matter of convenience for Xcel. Or, it could be simple incompetence. Whatever it is, it is very annoying.

And, none of us have any recourse. We can’t pick another provider of electricity. Xcel is a monopoly, so we just have to put up with whatever incompetence they subject us to.

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