(WWJ) More than 147,000 homes and businesses remain in the dark following Wednesday night’s storms.
DTE reports 147,012 customers are without power as of 7 p.m. Saturday. They’ve been so for three days—and counting.
The outages are scattered all throughout the listening area.
Multiple cities in Wayne and Washtenaw counties—such as Garden City, Westland, Highland Park Wayne, Milan, and Ann Arbor—have pockets where more than 1,000 or more homes and businesses have been knocked off the grid.
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Landis Vickerson of Detroit hasn’t had electricity since Wednesday night.
“No air, no food, discomfort, everything,” he told WWJ. “Just sitting there in the dark….”
Nearly 2,900 crews are in the field to restore power, according to DTE.
DTE told WWJ the estimated restoration for most of the customers is 11:30 p.m. Saturday. However, they said a small portion of those affected may remain in the dark until Monday.
Nearly 800,000 homes and businesses in total were knocked off the grid by the storms.
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