Xcel needs a scalpel, not a cleaver

These public safety shutdowns cannot become the new normal. It's extremely disruptive and beyond inconvenient and frustrating. Years of Xcel management neglect to maintain and harden vulnerable infrastructure can't be born by the public. It's not fair to us.

Additionally, this wind event was NOTHING. To be clear, it was a non-event here in Solterra (470 and Alameda - west Lakewood area).

Xcel must get more surgical with both cutting power and their communications. Broadly cutting power to thousands of customers who aren't even experiencing high winds is unacceptable. Because of their broad - one size fits all approach, communications are extremely vague, untimely and not helpful whatsoever. Here's what we were told - summarizing: "You will loose power at 5am Friday and you might not get it back until sometime Monday but we will try to restore is as soon as possible." Ridiculous.

Homes directly across the street in our neighborhood had power, but yet our side of the street was deemed unsafe?

If Xcel can't be more surgical when managing future power outages (as there will be more!) then they must subsidize natural gas generators for our homes.

Xcel needs to stop using a cleaver when they ought to be using a scalpel.