DENVER (AP) - Utility workers in Colorado are trying to restore power to thousands of homes and businesses that lost their electrical service during a powerful snowstorm.
Xcel Energy spokesman Joe Fuentes said 8,200 customers in the city of Evergreen still were blacked out Sunday morning, while 1,500 homes and business in Boulder and 800 homes in Denver also had no electricity.
Fuentes says crews worked through the night and were still on the job Sunday morning trying to restore service.
The storm struck Friday and dropped as much as 52 inches of snow in the foothills west of Denver, with up to 10 inches in the metro area.
The storm also closed an 80-mile stretch of Interstate 70 from Friday into Saturday, stranding hundreds of travelers.
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