Over 150K Michigan residents out of power as bad weather continues

Scores of Michigan residents woke up without powerfulness for a fifth-straight time Monday greeting amid brutal wintertime weather. 

Over 150,000 homes and businesses stay without powerfulness arsenic of 12:45 p.m. ET Monday from past week's crystal large wind coupled pinch precocious winds, according to PowerOutage.US. 

This comes arsenic nan National Weather Service (NWS) predicted that much wintry weather, starring to much crystal accumulations, will deed parts of nan authorities passim nan time Monday.

Mitch Wengrzynowicz uses integrative to effort and support rooms lukewarm arsenic his location mislaid powerfulness successful Dearborn, Mich., Friday, Feb. 24, 2023. Michigan is shivering done extended powerfulness outages caused by 1 of nan worst crystal storms successful decades.  (AP Photo/Paul Sancya / AP Images)

WINTER STORM CANCELS HUNDREDS MORE FLIGHTS ACROSS COUNTRY

The NWS agency successful Detroit tweeted that "widespread wintry weather" including snow, sleet and freezing rain, will move crossed Southeast Michigan precocious Monday greeting and will past done nan evening. 

Ice accumulations up to a tenth of an inch are expected, officials said. A Winter Weather Advisory has been issued for parts of Southeast Michigan. 

Meanwhile, crews person been moving astir nan timepiece to reconstruct powerfulness pursuing nan powerful large wind past week which created 1 of nan biggest outages inferior company, DTE Energy, has ever seen. 

DTE Energy spokeswoman Cindy Hecht said it was topped only by nan March 2017 upwind large wind that knocked retired powerfulness to astir 800,000 customers. 

DTE Energy reported astir 3,000 downed wires and adjacent to 500,000 customers without powerfulness correct aft nan large wind hit, according to a summary of nan large wind from nan NWS. 

After precocious winds connected Thursday, much than 600,000 DTE customers were near successful nan acheronian astatine nan storm’s peak.

"For galore metro Detroit communities, an crystal large wind pinch this wide of a footprint has not been observed since April 2003," nan NWS said. 

WINTER STORM GROUNDS NEARLY 1,000 FLIGHTS, KNOCKS OUT POWER FOR THOUSANDS

Even though location are still tens of thousands of outages, much than 95% of DTE customers impacted by nan storm person been restored by Monday morning, nan institution said. 

"Crews will proceed moving astir nan timepiece to reconstruct nan remaining storm-impacted customers, arsenic good arsenic each different customers that person knowledgeable caller outages," DTE tweeted. 

Meanwhile, nan state's different main utility, CMS Energy portion Consumers Energy, tweeted Monday greeting that it's yet "down to nan astir frustrating portion of a large big wind event. The mini outages."

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Mitch Wengrzynowicz sits nether a broad arsenic his location mislaid powerfulness successful Dearborn, Mich., Friday, Feb. 24, 2023. Michigan is shivering done extended powerfulness outages caused by 1 of nan worst crystal storms successful decades.  (AP Photo/Paul Sancya / AP Images)

Following nan storm, nan institution prioritized circuits that person emergency services for illustration hospitals connected them. From there, it move connected to nan circuits that person nan astir group retired connected them, Consumers Energy tweeted. 

"Smaller circuits are conscionable arsenic important to america and nan jobs connected those smaller circuits return conscionable arsenic overmuch clip to complete," nan inferior tweeted. "Sometimes they tin beryllium much challenging to restore, depending connected really acold poles are from nan roadworthy and really overmuch ligament needs to beryllium restrung." 

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The Associated Press contributed to this report.