Grateful for the Preventive Shutdown

I live in the foothills, and am VERY appreciative that Xcel chose to shut down power.

I had plenty of notice.

I question whether it was necessary to cut power to telephones. Even though I have a backup power source, as a result of the outage I had no internet connection. Cell phones do not work here. So, without landline telephone, I had no communication capabilities at all.

A better job could have been done of explaining - ahead of time - the steps that would need to be taken to re-energized the lines, and therefore a better expectation set for when we could expect power to return.