Thousands of metro Detroiters are waking up in the dark, with some communities going without power for over 48 hours.
DTE said that this was one of most impactful storms on their grid, saying Friday’s 60 mile-per-hour winds broiught down a couple thousand power lines and trees. The damage was worse than DTE had expected and prepared for; per the DTE Outage Map, as of Monday morning at 6 a.m., more than 79,000 metro customers in metro Detroit were without power, with that total going down from 400,000 people on Friday.
We’ve seen several areas across metro Detroit without power, including Detroit, Dearborn Heights and Royal Oak…