SANTA FE, NM – More than 5,000 PNM customers still do not have power. A Santa Fe couple KOB 4 spoke with Friday said they haven’t had power since Wednesday.

“It’s never been like this,” said Santa Fe resident Paul Grant.

Grant’s home is one of 843 homes without electricity in Santa Fe. Grant and his wife say it affects their work.

“We both have businesses here, I have insurance, my wife is an accountant and we need our computers,” Grant said. “We lost the food in our refrigerator, we have a cooler with some frozen items, but we were left in the dark,” Grant said.

Grant says they’re lucky to be able to keep warm, but they need electricity to meet medical needs.

“She uses oxygen, I start CPAP. I’m not serious, but it’s something I need to start. I can’t install it because we need electricity to have electricity,” Grant said.

He says they are able to live without it for a while, but express frustration that the PNM hasn’t been much help.

“They sent us texts, three or four texts, saying that power should increase from here and from now on. Of course, it comes and goes. And now they’re telling us this morning at 9 o’clock in the next 12 hours. We now learn that it is 11:30 p.m. and that it is Friday evening. I don’t know if what they’re saying makes sense at this point,” Grant said.

Grant says it’s a waiting game to see when the lights come back on.

“You expect it if you live in the country or the county. You don’t expect that in downtown Santa Fe,” Grant said.