Power Outage

  Yesterday SPEC and XCEL had a utility pole catch fire and melt some wires. This occurred in New Deal. It turns out the two crews were trying a "backfeed",whatever that is. The end result was over 2,500 customers including this editor had no electricity for two hours. It was about 5PM and many residents came home from work to homes that were dark and couldn't use their AC. Life has become dependent on electricity.