Hundreds of thousands of people are without power in the metro Detroit area and could be without it for days following a coast-to-coast winter storm sweeping over the area.
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“Our Storm Response Teams, along with line workers from neighboring states, are working to quickly and safely restore power to all customers impacted by the extreme weather that passed through Michigan yesterday,” an update on the website states, predicting that 95 percent of customers will have power restored by Sunday, February 26.
The company’s executive vice president of distribution operations, Matt Paul, said the area experienced record ice accumulations not seen in decades, which added “tremendous weight” to equipment, leading to the outages.
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