Published April 17. 2018 07:29AM
WARREN, Michigan (AP) — Crews from several states are helping to restore power to tens of thousands of customers without service in Michigan after a weekend storm brought freezing rain, high winds and snow.
DTE Energy says early Tuesday about 145,000 of its customers had no electricity after service to 245,000 others was restored. Most should have power back by the end of Tuesday, including most schools.
DTE says more than 1,000 workers will be in the field along with 600 from Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Tennessee.
Consumers Energy had about 130,000 Michigan outages and restored power to most by Monday night.
In Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, just over 2 feet (0.6 meters) of snow was reported in Ishpeming and Menominee.
On Tuesday, fresh snow fell in parts of Michigan, Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
A woman uses an umbrella to chip away at the ice accumulation on her windshield in downtown Lansing, Mich., Sunday, April 15, 2018. Freezing rain that began falling overnight had left roads treacherous and cut power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses by midday Sunday in Michigan even as heavy snow was forecast to dump a foot or more of snow on parts of the state’s Upper Peninsula by early Monday. (Robert Killips/Lansing State Journal via AP)
Emilio Rosas spreads salt on the sidewalk of several businesses in Lansing, Michigan’s Old Town Sunday, April 15, 2018. (Robert Killips/Lansing State Journal via AP)