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More than 116,000 Xcel customers experience outages

Xcel Energy crews worked through the night to restore power.
Credit: Courtesy Xcel

KUSA — Xcel Energy says so far, 116,983 customers experienced some sort of outage related to near-hurricane force winds Tuesday that whipped through the Denver metro area, knocking down trees and power poles along the way.

As of 6:30 a.m. Wednesday, 11,000 Xcel customers in Colorado are still without power.

Crews worked through the night, but Xcel says power won't be restored for everyone by Wednesday.

Xcel says 152 full-time employees are working to restore service.

You can see the Xcel outage map here: https://bit.ly/2ycROoI

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