Driving into Golden with my fiancée on Wednesday night, we entered what felt like a ghost town. Streetlights vanished. Buildings went dark. Darkness surrounded us.
For several minutes, we experienced what tens of thousands of Coloradans were feeling — life without power in the night. And not the sweet, romantic, candlelit kind.
Xcel Energy’s planned Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) — triggered by wicked winds and impacting roughly 100,000 people — is having real-world consequences…