Thousands across Michigan are still without power after the latest round of severe weather on May 15, 2025.
According to MLive as of Monday morning over 14,000 Consumers Energy customers remain without power after nine confirmed tornadoes swept across the state forcing municipalities such as Kalamazoo County to declare an official state of emergency.
When looking through the Consumers Energy outage map most outages were attributed to “weather” or “trees”– and now post-storm cleanup begins. To those of us here in Southwest Michigan who experienced the tornadoes in May 2024:
Doesn’t it feel like we just did this?
Hopefully all those trees we just planted to replace those lost in the 2024 storms haven’t already been ripped out of the ground. Has “tornado alley” now grown to include Michigan?…