(WWJ) -- Many metro Detroiters are still in the dark this morning after another round of storms caused a slew of outages this week.
On Wednesday, wind gusts of nearly 60 miles-per-hour brought down over 1,400 power lines, snapping utility poles and knocking over 135,000 DTE Energy customers off the grid.
DTE president Trevor Lauer tells WWJ that the unprecedented weather that’s plagued the region this summer has left the utility trying to keep up with outages.
“We have seen weather, moisture, rain and winds that we have not seen in southeast Michigan in a long time, and it’s impacted our system, our customers and our employees quite extensively,” Lauer said.
“We’ve got to keep working on it,” he continued. “Can’t make excuses, we’ve got to own the lack of reliability we have for our customers and right now. We’ve just got to get everyone back in power today.”
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As of Friday morning, there are still a reported 47,000 homes and businesses in southeastern Michigan without electricity.
Schools in Marysville, Port Huron, Rochester and Detroit are all closed due to outages.
DTE says that many customers will not have power back until sometime this weekend.
Crews from Ohio, New York, Tennessee, and Canada are assisting in restoration efforts.
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