Neighbors Across Street Had Power, We Didn't

I did the family weekly shopping on Friday afternoon. Our refrigerator and freezer were full. I received an email Friday at 6:30 p.m. (which I didn't see until the next day when it was too late) saying power "may" proactively get shut off in my community. A text would have been better. I could have run out and bought a cooler and ice to protect hundreds of dollars in groceries. Another email at 10 a.m. which I also didn't see said "may" turn off power. It wasn't until 1:50 p.m. that an email was sent saying power will be shut off. It was the weekend! I didn't see any of these emails. After our power was shut off at 3 p.m., I finally received the first text saying "an outage may be impacting my area." Why didn't they text from the very beginning? For 24 hours we were left without power as my neighbors directly across the street kept theirs. It was infuriating. All around me in Boulder others had power. There was no rhyme or reason to who was without. Total patchwork. Friends in Lafayette and Broomfield in far greater fire danger zones had power. To top it off, my kids who work on Pearl St at restaurants had their work shut down. Why shut down Pearl St with its dozens of restaurants but not other parts of town near open fields and potential fire zones? Worst of all - Xcel went radio silent during this, and the next morning when there was no wind they kept the power out all day for no reason. My elderly mother couldn't use her electric hospital bed to get up and down, the list goes on... It felt like Xcel was punishing Boulder, but not Longmont, Lafayette, and other nearby towns. Who decided which grids would go down and stay down?!