Short of Breath

Needing 3 liters of oxygen on a 24 hour basis, I was not prepared to be without electrical services when they were shut down. Having no warning, I was forced out of my home for over 48 hours. The first night was spent at a friends, the second in a hotel room . I was lucky, some senior residents in my building did not have a way or resources to go anywhere and suffered with no lights, no transportation, no ability to feed themselves and no communication of when things would improve. Our lives were interrupted and endangered without warning or regard for our well-being. Our property management, Boulder County Housing, did not inform us of the impending shutdown or seem to care what happened to the 55 and older residents of our building. Needless to say, we are saddened and angry concerning the lack of communication from both Xcel and BCH.