Outage From 4/6, 7:29PM to 4/9, 2:04PM

We sat by and watched as everyone else around us still had power. It was only our block. The neighbors across the street had power, the neighbors behind and across had power. A few other blocks scattered in our area were without power. One by one over the three day period, each of them reported power restoration. Many of them only experiencing short outages or outages long after we did. We reported a downed power pole the first night but no one came. 61 houses were without power so apparently we were low priority. However, we saw other outages with only 15, 31 and 1 (a single house) get power restored before us. 3 entire days without power and my mother has to sleep with a CPAP machine. Luckily we invested in a $1,000 backup rechargeable battery and were able to make sure our phones and her machine would make it through the nights. But to find out xcel won't even reimburse us for our food spoilage? Despite not warning us? Despite refusing to update their infrastructure after years of community and state pressure to do so? I think it's time for change. You'll be seeing me at the next town hall.