People Trapped In Elevators At Renaissance Center When Power Goes Out In Downtown Detroit
The problem started a little after 4 p.m. and is impacting the Ren Cen, One Detroit Center, and a number of other city buildings.
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The problem started a little after 4 p.m. and is impacting the Ren Cen, One Detroit Center, and a number of other city buildings.
A representative for Consumer's Energy says it may be Wednesday before all power is restored.
DTE Energy is reporting a power outage in the city of Detroit that is effecting roughly 5,000 home and business owners.
DTE Energy officials say power has been fully restored to 10,000 homes and businesses in Troy, two days after a substation fire knocked everyone offline.
Troy's city hall, library, community center, family aquatic center as well as its district court --- will be closed Friday.
Officials are dealing with a major power outage in Troy.
DTE Energy says heavy wind gusts and rainfall throughout the night caused trees and tree limbs to knock out power.
Consumers Energy says a mobile substation is being brought in due to the amount of time expected to make repairs.
The wet weather might also be to blame for an accident on Detroit's west side that sent a car slamming into a garage.
The lights went out around 5:45 p.m and were restored just after 7 p.m. A DTE spokesman said that there was a problem at a substation.
The power of some Ferndale, Royal Oak, Hazel Park, and Madison Heights residents is starting to come back on after an outage that affected as many as 15,000 customers.
Power has been restored in Ann Arbor, after more than 1,700 customers were in the dark Friday evening for about an hour.
About 9,000 homes and businesses were knocked offline after a vehicle crashed into a pole along Grand River Avenue.
About 10,000 customers are without power along Telegraph Road, between Ford and Warren Road.
DTE says crews are on site assessing the situation, but don't have a cause at this time.
DTE expects the power to be back on by 4:30 p.m.
The state's biggest utilities have been ordered, among other things, to make it easier for customers to get credits on bills when they suffer losses due to outages.
"The city's public lighting grid suffered a major cable failure that has caused the entire grid to lose power."
Multiple Detroit school buildings were plunged into darkness Tuesday — affected by a widespread power outage in downtown Detroit.
Power to 7,000 homes, businesses along the Southfield Freeway corridor was out early Monday morning.
Strong winds gusts swept through the region Monday, knocking down trees and power lines.
Power has been restored to about 3,000 homes and businesses in Ypsilanti that were knocked offline following an apartment fire.
DTE Energy reports that 8,000 customers in the southeastern part of the state are still in the dark -- that's down from about 42,000 affected by the high winds that started Friday.
A DTE spokesperson said that Belleville saw the most significant outages with an estimated 3,500 weather related power outages.
About 41,000 homes and businesses remain without power Tuesday morning -- down from a high of 375,000 outages.
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If you normally use street parking for your vehicle, you may be asked or instructed to move it on Thursday.
The Road Commission for Oakland County says it was expecting snow on Wednesday, but it wasn't expecting it to snow nonstop all afternoon and evening.
If you normally use street parking for your vehicle, you may be asked or instructed to move it on Thursday.
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