A powerful wind storm knocked out power to 40,000 Xcel Energy customers at least temporarily, and many homes will be without power until Wednesday afternoon, officials say.
About 9,800 homes in Denver and another 1,000 in the Greeley area were without power about 7:30 a.m., said Mark Stutz, spokesman for Xcel Energy.
By 9 a.m. Wednesday the number of Xcel customers without power in the state was about 26,000, according to the utility.
A cold front came from the northwest around 10 p.m. and blew power lines down, according to Stutz. The strongest winds were between 11 p.m. and midnight, he added.
Wind gusts reached 89 mph at Loveland Pass and the lower 60s in the metro area overnight, said Frank Cooper,
meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Boulder.Cooper said a high wind warning will be in effect for areas north and northeast of the Denver area through the day, with gusts expected to reach 60 mph on the Eastern Plains.
The Denver area will also have high winds today, topping out at about 40 mph, he said.
The winds were blowing branches and uprooting trees that fell into electrical lines, Stutz said. In some cases lines were swinging into each other and heavy debris was blowing into lines.
"There were a lot of things happening that caused damage last night all related to the wind," he said. "This storm came in like a sustained microburst."
Extra crews were called in to restore lines and repair damage, Stutz said.
He added: "The goal is to get everybody back in service by this afternoon."
The Denver Fire Department fielded quite a few wind-related calls overnight, said Lt. Phil Champagne, a department spokesman.
Among the calls was one on a tree blowing over and landing on a house in the 3300 block of Fillmore Street, Champagne said.
There were no reports of injuries.
At Denver International Airport the high winds did not cause any problems that interrupted service, an airport spokeswoman said.
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