Some Michigan residents faced a fourth straight day in the dark Sunday as crews continued working to restore power to more than 170,000 homes and businesses in the Detroit metropolitan area following last week’s ice storm
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Thomas said she feels lucky, because while her husband is away traveling, she and their 17-year-old son have been able to stay at her parents’ nearby home, which still has power but was unoccupied because her parents are in Florida. DTE Energy spokeswoman Cindy Hecht said some of the utilities' customers have been without power since late Wednesday, but she did not know how many homes and businesses were in that predicament.
“The icing event we had this week is equivalent to a hurricane for coastal utilities. It was the amount of ice and high winds — the winds and the amount of ice accumulation on lines and branches,” she said. The ongoing outages prompted some Democratic state lawmakers to call Sunday for legislative hearings in Lansing to question utilities about repeated reliability issues with the electrical grid and long restoration times from last week’s storm.
Suburban Santa Clarita, in hills north of Los Angeles, received its first significant snowfall since 1989.Santa Clarita SignalThe weather service said Mountain High, one of the closest ski resorts to Los Angeles, received an eye-popping 7.75 feet of snow during the last storm, with more possible this week.
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