LANSING, MI — The Lansing Board of Water & Light (BWL) is continuing to respond to widespread outages following last night’s severe storm, according to a press release. Crews have been working around the clock to make repairs and continue assessing storm-related damage to provide updated estimated restoration times. Updates will be posted to BWL’s Outage Map.
The storm resulted in around 24,000 outages at its peak overnight, according to BWL, with many primary lines down and broken poles across the BWL service territory. The Lansing utility reports nearly 22,000 customers in the Lansing area still without power this morning as of 8:00 a.m.
Meanwhile, Consumers Energy is starting what they call “an around-the-clock effort” to restore power after a line of devastating storms rampaged across Michigan late Thursday and early this morning, delivering powerful winds and hail and toppling trees and power lines.
Some 500 crews from Consumers Energy and various Michigan contractors are mobilized to help restore power to over 216,000 homes and businesses. The company also is working to secure more crews to power the restoration effort.
The line of storms brought reports of 70 mph winds, tornado sightings, hail and other damage to homes and businesses across mid-Michigan. The winds will likely continue through the day Friday, but CE will be restoring power as long as it is safe, according to a press release.
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