Colorado Power Outage Preparedness Guide
A dedicated Colorado edition of 90 Days Without Power by Robert Smythe is coming soon. Until it is published, use the national guide together with this regional note and your official state emergency-management and 2-1-1 pages. This page does not invent Colorado-specific death counts, outage totals, or agency URLs.
Regional planning note
Altitude changes boil times (CDC: 3 minutes above 6,500 feet; this book uses a conservative 3-minute boil at or above 5,000 feet) and winters can be severe. Do not copy a low-desert heat plan without a cold plan.
National baselines still apply in Colorado: one gallon of water per person per day (Ready.gov), a several-day kit as the first layer, a two-week home supply if you can (American Red Cross), CDC boil times, EPA bleach doses for microbial risk, USDA refrigerator and freezer times, and generators kept outdoors more than 20 feet from openings (CDC / CPSC).
What a future Colorado edition will add
Pilot editions already do this for Arizona, Texas, California, Florida, and Minnesota: a named state emergency agency, a public information network, 2-1-1, climate and documented past outages from official reviews, water and heat or cold notes, and a short pointer to that state’s self-defense statutes with a plain statement that the note is not legal advice.
Available now: Arizona · Texas · California · Florida · Minnesota
Start with the free national guides: how to prepare for a 90-day blackout, power outage checklist, and water storage math.