7/28/14 - Approximately 5,000 homes and businesses in Livingston County are without power after a strong line of storms moved across the area late Sunday afternoon. They are among the approximately 126,000 across all of DTEâs service area. About half of the local outages are in the Hartland Township area, with DTE Energy saying wind damage was the cause. The utility says most of the outages should be resolved by late Tuesday night, although some of the more isolated areas might have to wait until Thursday. The series of severe thunderstorms packed winds of up to 50 miles per hour that knocked down trees and ripped roofs off buildings across the region. The National Weather Service says a trained spotter reported 1.75-inch hail struck Oakland County's White Lake Township and that the high winds damaged 80 percent of the units at a mobile home park in Highland Township. The Village branch of the Hartland Cromaine District Library is closed until 1pm while the Hartland Child Care Center is closed today because of the outage. (JK)
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