Storm damage leaves 116K without power, restoration efforts ongoing
Storm damage across Metro Detroit after Wednesday's severe weather
Madison Heights was one of the hardest hit areas from last night's storms.
FOX 2 - Severe weather passed through Southeast Michigan twice Wednesday night, leaving a trail of damage, flooding and power outages across the area.
Big picture view:
According to DTE Energy Outage Map, about 116,000 customers are without power early Thursday morning. DTE Energy said there are over 2,600 storm response team members working to restore power.
Additional help is also on the way. About 800 more line workers are headed to Metro Detroit from outside Michigan in an effort to speed up restoration.
DTE expects that about 80 percent of impacted customers will be restored by the end of the day Thursday.
Stay away from downed lines
DTE reminds us to be safe and remain at least 25 feet away from downed power lines or anything in contact with them. Assume any downed line is live and dangerous. And please remember to report your outage to receive restoration updates.
Metro Detroit storm damage
Storm damage from Wednesday night leave trees down, power out
Two rounds of storms late Wednesday night has left many in the dark with trees down and flooding in some areas.
Local perspective:
One such area hard-hit area Thursday morning was in Warren on Beeman Avenue, close to 10 Mile.
A large tree there has been uprooted and is laying across this driveway. It's dark right now, and hard to tell whether it is laying on top of the house or not.
Storm damage from Madison Heights near 11 Mile and John R.
But there is a lot of damage there. And that is what we are seeing in this neighborhood, just lots of limbs that are down and things like that from the storms overnight.
On I-94 near Gratiot in Wayne County had been shut down due to flooding on the road and our crews could see road crew plow trucks push water out of the eastbound lanes
Thankfully it has reopened so it will not be an issue for the morning commute.
The hard rains, they did uproot trees across the viewing area a all over the place and took out power lines.
More storms possible Thursday night
What's next:
An isolated storm is possible through midday, though the best bet once again is late afternoon and evening.
Scattered, potentially widespread storms develop, and the severe threat will be alive and well too.
Pockets of damaging winds are the greatest threat, while downpours keep localized flooding a possibility.
A slight risk (2 out of 5) remains in place through tonight.
The Source: Information for this report was from FOX 2 crews observing storm damage and flooding this morning.
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