As the Front Range braces for winds of up to 90 mph Wednesday afternoon, Xcel Energy preemptively shut off power for tens of thousands of people west of Denver.
The shutoffs began around 10 a.m. as winds picked up, Xcel officials said at a news conference Wednesday morning. While the winds are expected to die down around 6 p.m., some outages could last several additional hours or potentially days as crews work to inspect and assure power lines are intact.
Residents in Golden reported being without power just after 10 a.m. Wednesday. As of 11:45 a.m., nearly 100,000 Coloradans were reported as not having power from Xcel, according to its interactive Electric Outage Map…