No Power for days with freezing temps, and snow on the ground

First off, I want to make it clear that I am all about Safety first, and certainly when it comes to natural disasters and or potentially man made ones. The events of 4/6-4/7 which prompted Xcel Energy to preventatively turn off power to several thousand households due to excessively high winds makes sense. What, did not make sense to me, as a resident of Nederland, CO was, why up here? We recently had a 4 foot snow storm, followed by several smaller snow storms, temperatures have been dropping below freezing, and, there is still in some areas over a foot of snow on the ground. The notice we received , maybe three hours, before the stated time of 3:00, turned out to be 2:25 and stayed off until Monday, 4/8 at 2:30. We did have some strong wind gusts in the night, but over all we have had higher more sustained winds all winter, and never heard from Excel. Up here, during that particular time frame it is not quite, "fire season". It would have been nice if they either kept to the planned restoration of turning the power back on Sunday, 4/7 at 12:00. Or, had our area on a stand-by. Many residents up here, do not have alternative heat sources like wood burning stoves. Many homes are not well insulated, the nighttime temperatures were well below freezing, as were morning temperatures. One resident we know, inside their house it was 45 degrees! I am completely all about safety first, but in late winter with as much saturation that was on the ground it seems like it was a tad over zealous in including Nederland in such a wide spread outage.