Storms leave thousands without power in Washtenaw, Livingston counties
Several thousand DTE customers in northern Washtenaw and southern Livingston counties are without electricity following severe thunderstorms that moved though the area late afternoon today.
A DTE outage map shows the hardest hit was the Whitmore Lake area where close to 4,000 residential and commercial customers were without power. The map shows another pocket of about 800 customers without electricity northwest of Ann Arbor.
There are also scattered pockets of outages in Hamburg Township in Livingston County.
The storms moved through the area about 4:30 p.m., bringing lightning, high winds and heavy rainfall.
DTE Energy spokesman Alejandro Bodipo-Memba said about 48,000 customers total are without electricity in southeast Michigan as a result of the storms and crews are working to restore power. He said western Wayne County was among the hardest hit areas.
Bodipo-Memba said the utility did not have an estimate yet on when power would be fully restored to all affected areas.
Comments
Inge Vogelsang-Buchanan
Sun, Aug 21, 2011 : 4:17 a.m.
if they ever put the powerlines underground like other countries do , there wont be any without power after a little storm
jeepinkev
Sun, Aug 21, 2011 : 1:07 a.m.
Saw a tree down blocking 3/4 of North Territorial at Huron River Drive (mostly the west bound lane, but the east bound lane was blocked also). I was amazed at how many drivers, both east and west bound, who were not excercising any caution...saw one car almost hit the tree...be careful everyone.
nickcarraweigh
Sun, Aug 21, 2011 : 12:58 a.m.
There have been several humid days lately, and today it even rained briefly, yet my power service has been uninterrupted. This is not the DTE I have been paying for these many years. I want a Congressional investigation launched forthwith.