Crews Work To Restore Power To Remaining Customers After Damaging Wind Storm

DETROIT (WWJ) - Repair crews are restoring power after gusty winds and rain knocked out power to roughly 180,000 power customers this week.

Representatives for DTE Energy say they have restored 158,000 of the 180,000 customers who lost power Monday, throughout southeast Michigan and much of the Midwest.

As of Tuesday evening these are the counties where the majority of the 22,000 remaining customers impacted by power outages are:

Wayne – 11,000
Oakland – 1,000
Macomb – 2,000
St. Clair – 4,000

DTE says crews are working 16-hour shifts around the clock to get power back to customers that were impacted. Wind gusts of up to 60 miles per hour caused more than 2,000 downed power lines across DTE's Southeast Michigan service area.

Crews are expected to get the vast majority of customers restored by Wednesday night.

Approximately 150 additional linemen from Ohio and Indiana will join the restoration effort Wednesday morning.