MICHIGAN — Nearly 80,000 utility customers across Michigan are without electricity Thursday morning as outages continue to impact communities throughout the state.
According to PowerOutage.us, 79,708 customers are currently without power, affecting about 1.57% of the more than 5 million customers tracked statewide.
Barry County is reporting the largest number of outages, with 12,999 customers without service. Kent County follows with 10,061 outages, while Kalamazoo County has 6,798 customers in the dark. Other heavily affected counties include Allegan County with 5,442 outages, Ionia County with 3,700, Ottawa County with 2,866 and Ingham County with 2,804…