LANSING – About 2,000 homes and businesses remain without electricity four days after severe storms moved through the Lansing area.
As of 7 a.m. Monday, May 19, Consumers Energy is reporting about 900 customers without power between Charlotte and Potterville, in the area where an EF-1 tornado was confirmed by the National Weather Service on the evening of May 15. Consumers said it expected to restore power during the day on May 19. The company was also reporting scattered outages near Battle Creek and Kalamazoo, other areas hard hit by storms.
The Lansing Board of Water & Light reported 1,089 customers still without electricity, down from the roughly 24,000 homes and businesses that lost power in the storms. Restoration times were May 20 and May 21 for those outages, according to BWL’s online outage map…