More than 7,000 Xcel Energy customers in the Denver metro were without power Wednesday morning after wild wind on Tuesday downed power lines and knocked out service for more than 122,000 customers along the Front Range.
Wednesday morning outages were spread throughout the metro, scattered from Boulder down to Centennial.
Fierce Tuesday winds wreaked havoc throughout the state, tipping over semi-trucks, flinging furniture off patios and temporarily stopping flights at Denver International Airport.
The National Weather Service reported wind gusts of 89 miles per hour in Lousville. Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport in Broomfield reported gusts of 86 miles per hour, and DIA logged gusts of 51 miles per hour.
As of 2:30 p.m. yesterday, Xcel had 122,321 customers who experienced an outage with 65,509 customers experiencing an extended outage.
As of 8 a.m, Xcel restored 56,133 customers — about 86 percent.
“We’ve called in crews for additional resources,” said Michelle Aguayo, Xcel Energy spokeswoman.
Aguayo said crews tackle the larger outages first where most people are affected and then go on to fix neighborhood and block-sized outages.
Xcel hopes power knocked out from the winds will be restored to all by Wednesday evening.
