700K power outages in Michigan likely restored by Sunday -- barring weather

OP's comment: In downtown Detroit where I live luckily the storm only produced pretty ice-covered trees. I hope everyone's doing alright.


(Detroit Free Press) When will the lights come on again?

Utility crews in Michigan are working to restore power to hundreds of thousands of customers in Michigan. Yet, the totals hardly seemed to change with DTE reporting early Friday morning more than 460,000 customers still in the dark. Consumers Energy's totals didn't fare much much better, falling slightly to more than 175,000.

One problem, Trevor Lauer, the president of DTE Electric, said Friday during an early morning news conference, as fast as they could put power lines back up, more came down. On top of the 500,000 customers who lost their electricity during the storm, on Thursday, another 100,000 also lost power.

Both companies — the state's two largest utilities — have said they expect most of their customers will have power back sometime Sunday. That's if the weather cooperates, and so far, that hasn't been the case. But, weather forecasters said, they may finally my catch a break this weekend, when it is expected to warm up. ..............(more)

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2023/02/24/michigan-power-outages-utilities/69939074007/