Did Xcel even prepare?

We all saw it. I'm all for preventative measures for safety, but they seemed to have no clue on how to actually execute a proactive shutdown - other than the shutting off the power part. Communication was extremely poor, and (perhaps because of the poor communication, my perception is) they didn't seem to plan out how long it'd take to bring it back on and instead took wild guesses. That makes it hard to know what to do. Even worse, I direct messaged them in twitter expressing concern after they announced it may extend another day or more, and they just responded with a link on how to prepare for an outage - yeah, thanks, that doesn't help.