Power Lost To 7,000 Homes, Businesses After Apparent Sub-Station Failure
Power to 7,000 homes, businesses along the Southfield Freeway corridor was out early Monday morning.
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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.
Crews continue to work 16-hour shifts around the clock to restore service, with about 40,000 in Wayne County, with the rest scattered throughout Oakland, Macomb and Washtenaw counties.
DTE says full restoration probably will take until Tuesday or Wednesday.
Friday's storm packed quite a punch, with wind gusts of more than 75 miles an hour and nickel-size hail.
Livonia and Redford Township residents who lost power during Friday's severe storm can even spend the night if they're without power.
DTE officials reported that up to 129,000 homes and businesses are without power, with the number of outages expected to grow until the storms move out of the area.
The storms brought 60 mile-per-hour wind gusts that knocked down trees and power lines and blacked out about 169,000 electricity customers.
Electricity has been restored to parts of a suburban Detroit hospital which lost power when problems were found in two underground cables.
The outages are scattered, however the biggest outages are in Madison Heights, Dearborn and near Lincoln Park.
As of Tuesday evening, DTE Energy had restored power to about 171,000 of the customers impacted by the high winds and lightning that hit southeast Michigan Sunday afternoon.
DTE Energy said about 1,000 customers remain without power early Thursday morning after more than 140,000 homes and businesses lost service.
Storms brought down about 800 power lines, and it could take crews until late Thursday night before all connections are restored.
About 58,000 homes and businesses are still without power; and trees are down across the region.
A second wave of thunderstorms moved across metro Detroit Wednesday, knocking out power to more than 50,000 homes and businesses.
Many travelers are missing their flights because of the outage. Several flights have also been delayed due to weather.
Multiple power lines were brought down by heavy winds. One home was hit by a fallen tree.
Scores of tree branches broke and fell from the weight of ice during the pre-Christmas storm, which knocked out power to roughly 650,000 homes and businesses.
Detroit's lighting department says it's finished restoring power to all of the 21 public schools that lost service in a storm, keeping 10 of them closed for two days.
Crews have restored power to over 75 percent of the homes and business knocked offline following three days of storms packing high winds.
Authorities say a downed power line along Woodward Avenue is causing about 1,400 outages.
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