Posted on Wed, Jul 18, 2012 : 4:17 p.m.
Power out for about 1,100 DTE Energy customers near Chelsea
By Cindy Heflin
Update: Power was restored to the area about 4:40 p.m. Wednesday, DTE Energy spokesman Alejandro Bodipo-Memba said.
Power should be restored sometime Wednesday evening for about 1,100 customers of DTE Energy in the Chelsea area who have been without it since about 10:30 this morning.
DTE spokesman Alejandro Bodipo-Memba said the cause of the outage was not known this afternoon.
The affected area stretches from north of Interstate 94 east of Chelsea north to Halfmoon Lake, according to the DTE power outage map.
Further information was not immediately available.
The affected area is shown in yellow on the map.
Comments
mermaid72
Thu, Jul 19, 2012 : 10:31 a.m.
You really need to buy a generator if you live out here!
clownfish
Thu, Jul 19, 2012 : 1:16 p.m.
unfortunate but true.
Townie
Thu, Jul 19, 2012 : 12:06 a.m.
Folks: Don't bother asking DTE to reimburse for your lost food (freezer) -- I did and they'll just tell you it's 'an act of nature' and refuse to pay. It's not an 'act of nature' - it's a lack of infrastructure, but DTE doesn't want to talk about that. $3+ million for the CEO and billions in profits. And they didn't pay any taxes for years AND got a $17 million tax refund to boot ! But your losses don't matter to a monopoly - 'sue us'. Maybe someone will take the CEO to small claims court for us.
Stan Hyne
Fri, Jul 20, 2012 : 12:55 a.m.
I don't know how it is now, but several years ago they were the second largest taxpayer in michigan. ( GM was first) They pay taxes on every building, transformer, and breaker on their system.
Jeff Frank
Thu, Jul 19, 2012 : 8:09 p.m.
I understand the frustration, but unless your freezer is really old (eg, crappily insulated), has bad seals, or was opened repeatedly during the day while the power was out, it's doubtful that you lost much other than ice cream and the like. All that frozen stuff in a well-insulated box is going to pretty much preserve itself for a day or two and since the article indicates that the power was only off for about 6 hours, there isn't much to be worried about.
llspier
Thu, Jul 19, 2012 : 2:38 a.m.
You forgot to include the $83.8 million dollar grant they got to install Smart-Meters . . .which they are also charging YOU for. See http://rochester.patch.com/articles/dte-will-let-customers-say-no-to-smart-meters Of course, that $83.8 million also comes from the taxpayers/ratepayers. Something is very rotten here.