If your Fourth of July weekend plans in Michigan came with no lights, no air conditioning, or a fridge you were suddenly worried about, you were not alone.
A strong line of storms rolled through Lower Michigan on Friday, leaving behind a mess just as people were heading into the holiday weekend. The storms knocked out power for hundreds of thousands of customers across the state, with downed trees, wires and damage reported in communities.
Consumers Energy said more than 120,000 customers were without power at the peak of the outage Friday evening. As of Sunday morning, about 57,000 Consumers Energy customers were still waiting to have their power restored…