Months of Power Outages Leave Littleton Neighborhood Looking for Solutions
By: Kelly Werthmann | CBS Colorado
It's been a tough week in Colorado if you struggle with the heat, especially if you don't have access to any sort of cooling measures. Residents say that's what happened in the Columbine Hills neighborhood in Littleton when the power went out for hours at a time. And they say this has been happening since last summer.
"We feel like prisoners in our own neighborhood," said resident Brandon Darnell.
Darnell s ays he's pretty sick of losing power at his Littleton home. He says it's never a brief outage.
"It's a while. It's like, I think at minimum usually four hours," said Darnell.
He says it has cost him money.
"I've had to throw a lot of money worth of meat away," said Darnell.
And it's affected his job.
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