Xcel, Colorado and Power outages
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Northern Colorado and the western Front Range are in for some big winds today, according to the National Weather Service forecast. Here are updates.
Tens of thousands of customers in Boulder and Jefferson counties are without electricity, with more listed on potential outage warnings.
Work crews are mopping up but bracing for more after hurricane-force wind downed power lines and fanned wildfires along the Colorado Front Range and onto the Great Plains.
With strong winds and dry conditions forecast for Wednesday in Colorado, Xcel Energy says it will shut off power in large portions of the Denver metro area along the Front Range in an effort to prevent wildfires.