Winds up to 50 mph knock out power to 33,000 in metro Detroit

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Source: Detroit Free Press

Winds up to 50 mph knock out power to 33,000 in metro Detroit
11:10 PM, October 29, 2012
By Ann Zaniewski
Detroit Free Press Staff Writer


About 33,000 DTE Energy customers were without power in metro Detroit Monday night as high winds knocked trees and tree limbs onto power lines.

DTE spokesman Scott Simons said power was lost to customers in Oakland, Wayne, Macomb, Lapeer, St. Clair and Washtenaw counties. About half of those outages were in Oakland, Wayne and Macomb counties, Simons said.

“We have wind gusts of up to 50 mph out there,” he said.

Simons said DTE Energy crews were out Monday night trying to restore power.

Read more: http://www.freep.com/article/20121029/NEWS05/121029113/metro-detroit-power-outages?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE

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Yes, this is small potatoes in comparison to the eastern seaboard, but it puts an exclamation point on the size and scope of this storm.

[truthisfreedom]

1. Pretty far in!

[condoleeza]

2. They still surfing out there on the Great Lakes? n/t

[alp227]

3. Sucks for them, if the World Series wasn't bad enough.

Wow, the storm hit the Great Lakes hard, too? meanwhile snow is already falling in Ann Arbor!