68 years of experience with electrical outages

I have lived in Colorado all my life, mostly in Arvada since the early sixties. I can never remember a time when we had a power outage that lasted more than a couple hours to 5-7 hours. The frustration with this outage was we didn't know if we were in the planned outage area, or the change xcel did on the lines where as I understand, if there is stress on a line such as a tree limb touching it, or the wind causing it to have too much stress, the power would be shut off then trucks would have to visibly check that line before power was restored manually, or if our outage was caused by an actual downed power line. Then we saw the map of the planned outage on the internet on our phone and we were not in the map area. So we thought it might be a downed line. With no power and not wanting to open the refrigerator to keep our food safe, we went out to dinner Saturday night and lunch Sunday. Drivingthrough Arvada, to Lakewood and back, never saw a Xcel truck. 68 yrs never had to throw food away due to powerout. We lost over $200 dollars of food.