Blizzard Downs Trees, Blamed For Power Outages
DENVER (CBS4)- The blizzard has resulted in more than 200,000 customers without power as of around 2 p.m. Xcel Energy officials have since updated that number to about 186,000 at around 3 p.m.
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Blowing winds combined with rain and snow are being blamed for several downed trees in the Denver metro area.
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Xcel says there are about 2,500 outages in the state, and this will be a "multi-day recovery effort." They say 143,000 customers still didn't have power at around 9:45 p.m. Wednesday, but power has been restored for 287,000 customers.
We're experiencing extensive electric #outages due to high winds throughout #Colorado damaging a number of lines & poles. Winds remain strong thru evening into Thursday. Extra crews in the field to survey damage & restore power, as winds allow. Updates @ https://t.co/6hpWaIBF5w pic.twitter.com/JhmkhMAdyh
— Xcel Energy Colorado (@XcelEnergyCO) March 13, 2019
Xcel Energy said they have extra crews in the field to survey the damage and restore power.
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There were downed trees in Aurora and also a tree that fell on a vehicle at 1st and Knox Avenue.