JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. — More than 3,800 Xcel Energy customers are without power Tuesday morning along Colorado's Front Range.
Xcel Energy's outage map shows 33 outage orders stretching from Boulder and Nederland to the northwest, along the foothills corridor and going all the way south to Roxborough Park, Tuesday morning.
Denver and its suburbs also showed a number of outages.
An Xcel Energy spokesperson said the outages were not caused by preemptive rolling outages like the company instituted during last month's windstorm.
The spokesperson said the system is set to wildfire safety operations, meaning that when wind damages electrical equipment and causes an outage, the outages may be more frequent and last longer.
In normal situations, when a tree hits a power line, the equipment would attempt to restore power automatically. During Monday's wind event, Xcel said it modified settings to prevent automatic restoration. The spokesperson said crews were out patrolling to check on equipment, making sure it's safe to turn the power back on.
One of the areas affected by Monday's outages was the Colorado Mills mall in Lakewood. The power went out for much of the area early Monday morning, and the outages lasted for most of the day.
"Definitely not what I was expecting today," said Hannah Thorson, Front House Manager at the Carrabba's near the mall.
"We opened probably around 11:30 a.m. It was on for maybe 20 minutes, had a couple tables and then, went completely out again," Thorson said.
Gusts wiped out power to half the mall and most of the businesses nearby. They even took out the traffic light at Colfax and Indiana, creating chaos for drivers and pedestrians trying to get through the busy area.
This kind of outage, Thorson said, is unusual.
"That last windstorm that happened, we were fine," Thorson said. "So it doesn't happen to us often."
With no customers and no power, all she and the bare-bones staff left at the restaurant could do was wait.
"We're hoping it comes back on," Thorson said. "We're trying to keep everything cold in the walk-in so nothing expires on us. But yeah, we're kind of going through it today."
With their day and their food on ice, keeping their cool was no easy task.
"If it does go on any longer, we'll have to throw a lot of product away," Thorson said. "So that's not good, especially with Mother's Day coming up. We can't afford to lose a lot of that."
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