7/1/14 - Thousands of Livingston County homes and businesses remain without power after heavy thunderstorms moved across the area early this morning and it could be awhile before service is completely restored. The thunderstorms, which triggered emergency sirens at about 2:30am, left dozens of tree limbs down, pulling down associated power lines in the area. The most recent update from DTE states that service has been restored to 50,000 customers and there are approximately 90,000 that remain without power in southeast Michigan because of the high-winds from the storm. About 15,000 of those outages are in Livingston County, with the vast majority in the Brighton and Hamburg Township areas. The Green Oak Township hall and Brighton City hall were both closed today along with some businesses in the Pinckney area because of the outage. DTE estimates that the vast majority of customers are expected to have their electric service restored by late Thursday night. Spokesman Scott Simons says strong winds of up to 70mph caused approximately 200 power lines to come down across the region. Meanwhile, Consumers Energy reports about 1,500 of its customers in Livingston County also lost power, many of them in the Tyrone Township area. Most of the outages occurred shortly after 3am. There is no estimate on when power will be restored as crews are still assessing the situation. (JK/JM)
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