At least 2,000 homes in the Denver metro area – mostly the foothills – still are without power today as energy crews slog through snow drifts up to 3 feet deep in spots to restore electricity after Tuesday’s storm.
“We have a lot of trees on power lines and lines down,” said Ethnie Groves, an Xcel spokeswoman.
About 1,500 customers in the Evergreen, Conifer, Indian Hills and Kittredge areas are without power, mostly because lines directly to their homes were cut off.
Another 500 customers in Aurora’s Box Elder Canyon also are without power.
Groves said extra crews have been called in and that Xcel workers plan to toil through the night in an effort to get everyone back on line.
“We have been making progress,” Groves said. “But when you’re working on single-family homes, it’s more time consuming.”
The foothills west of Denver received up to 20 inches of snow in the storm.
The Intermountain Rural Electric Association, which serves portions of 10 counties in the metro area, also had scattered reports of outages.
A weather-related rock slide was reported in Boulder Canyon at about 10 a.m. today. The slide did not cause any injuries, and no cars were hit, said Mindy Crane, a Colorado Department of Transportation spokeswoman.
In Denver, some roadways remained flooded after the storm delivered more than 2 inches of rain Tuesday, a new record for the day. Most closed routes reopened as the day wore on.
All Douglas County schools were closed today because of sloppy and treacherous road conditions in the county, said Whei Wong, a district spokeswoman. Certain schools in Jefferson and El Paso counties also were closed.
Staff writer Kieran Nicholson can be reached at 303-954-1822 or knicholson@denverpost.com.
