Power outages have lingered into Monday for thousands of Southeast Michigan residents affected by the severe storms and strong winds that rolled through the area Friday.
The number of DTE customers who are without power on Monday morning was shown at 79,469 as of 6 a.m. Monday morning. That’s a significant improvement from the 168,000 shown on the outage map at 12:10 a.m. Sunday. DTE provides electricity to most of Metro Detroit and Southeast Michigan; Consumers Energy provides service to parts of Monroe and Lenawee counties.
Hundreds of crew members from 12 states and Canada were called to Michigan over the weekend to help speed up restoration, according to DTE…