High winds knock out power to thousands in SE Michigan

FOX 2 High winds whipping across Metro Detroit are starting to disrupt power in portions of SE Michigan Friday.

The backstory:More than 2,500 DTE customers are without power according to the outage map. At one point earlier today the outage number was closer to 20,000.

The highest-recorded winds today include gusts of 67 miles per hour at Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Romulus and 66 miles per hour at Detroit City Airport in Wayne County.

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