Power mostly back on for areas hit by tornadoes

WELD COUNTY - Xcel Energy says most of the customers who lost power during Thursday's tornadoes got their power back Sunday.

The devastating tornadoes left a mess of power lines and poles behind. A number of distribution poles and six major transport lines were destroyed. Distribution poles bring power to homes. Major transport lines bring power from large power stations.

At the height of the outage Xcel said 60,000 customers were without power.

Sunday night, Xcel said about 200 customers were without power, and that those customers were living in homes where it was deemed unsafe to restore power.

If you don't have service and you believe that you should, call 1-800-895-1999.