GOLDEN, Colo. — Despite a widespread power outage caused by extreme winds, the Colorado School of Mines went ahead with its graduation ceremony on Friday, running the event entirely on emergency generators.
On a day typically filled with packed restaurants, bustling sidewalks, and family celebrations, downtown Golden was unusually quiet.
Extreme winds sweeping across the Front Range prompted Xcel Energy to cut power to much of the city as a safety precaution, leaving businesses dark and forcing families in caps and gowns to wander past shuttered storefronts, dinner reservations suddenly canceled…