Crews continue to work to restore power to thousands of people who lost power because of a wind storm on Saturday. Some 270,000 homes and businesses lost power statewide with that wind storm that packed up to 64 mile per hour winds, causing downed trees and power lines. Locally, DTE says over 85% of customers who lost power have had it restored. The remaining outage areas are estimated to be back on the grid by 10pm Monday night. DTE reminds you to stay at least 20 feet away from any downed power line and assume it’s live and dangerous.
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DTE Energy says they are on track to restore power to most of their 70,000-plus customers who are currently without power following Saturday’s high winds. Locally there are about 2000 customers in the Marysville and St. Clair Township area and approximately 1500 customers in Kenockee and Wales Townships that are currently without power. There is no estimated time of restoration according to the DTE Energy outage map. There are also isolated pockets of outages in the City of Port Huron south of the Black River and east of 10th Street and another between Pine Grove avenue and Riverside Drive. High winds in excess of 50 miles per hour Saturday resulted in downed trees and power lines across much of the southern lower peninsula. The utility says more than 1,500 linesmen are working in the to restore power and that they are on track to restore power to 80% to 90% of impacted customers by end of day Sunday.
