Columbine neighborhood

I’ve never lived in a neighborhood that loses power so often. Sometimes it’s once a week, sometimes every 2 weeks we lose power. This time it was 3 days, then 1 week later the power went off again for 3 hours.😞 We had to throw out all the spoiled food from our refrigerator & a freezer. I wish they could fix this poor system we have in this area.

Lack of communication

I live in Arvada and we were without power from Saturday around 10:00 p.m. to Tuesday around 6:00 p.m. I know power outages are common in high wind. It was not the power being off it was the lack of communication. On Monday I received only two messages from Xcel. One stated power would be back on by 2:00 p.m. and one that said power would be back up by 8:00 p.m. I even called the hot line and all it said was that it was taking longer than expected. I checked my food and I had kept my fireplace…

No electricity equals no oxygen

Many people were unable to run their oxygen concentrators due to power outages in their area. I am an RN Case Manager in a Level I trauma center in the Denver area. We had numerous patients brought in by EMS because of hypoxia and other worsening conditions due to lack of oxygen (many of which ended up in ICU). Many patients tell me that they did not know that there was to be a forced power outage. This lack of communication prohibited people who rely on oxygen concentrators from reaching their oxygen providers in time to have oxygen tanks delivered…

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