Wednesday, November 9, 2011
A wind advisory is in effect for much of southeast Michigan through 11 p.m. Wednesday
High winds blowing throughout southeast Michigan on Wednesday have left thousands without power in Oakland, Wayne, Washtenaw and Macomb Counties. The worst of the outages has occurred in Oakland County. In Farmington and Farmington Hills, more than 8,000 homes and businesses are without power, according to DTE Energy. Another 2,000 or more outages are reported in West Bloomfield, as well as 1,000 in Bloomfield. Smaller outages have been reported elsewhere from southern Wayne County to northern Oakland and Macomb counties, including Canton, White Lake, Plymouth and Dearborn. Also, in Berkeley, high winds caused a tree to fall onto a car. The driver was not injured. DTE Energy has no estimates as to when power will be restored. The National …
Saturday, September 3, 2011
More than 1,000 customers in the 48230 zip code have been without power since shortly after 7 p.m. with no expected restoration estimate.
A severe thunderstorm watch is in effect through midnight for much of Michigan, including Wayne and Macomb counties, according to the National Weather Service. The strongest of the storms could produce up to 70 mile per hour windgusts and large hail with a possibility of a tornado. There could also be flash flooding due to torrential rainfall, according to the watch. Meanwhile, more than 1,000 customers in the 48230 zip code have been without power for three hours, according to DTE outage maps. The area is south of Mack essentially all the way to the lake's edge including customers in Grosse Pointe Park and Detroit. A restoration estimate is not yet available and the reason for the outage simply states it's an area outage. Customers in…
Thursday, July 21, 2011
The school closed Thursday and will be closed again Friday, July 22. Grosse Pointe Public School officials are trying to find an alternative for the programs that meet at the center.
What began as 800-plus customers without power in the 48236 zip code has grown during the day to more than 1,600, according to DTE outage maps. Early in the day, the maps showed that 453 customers on and near the M streets the Farms were out of power. Shortly before 5 p.m., the outages expanded to incorporate about 1,300 customers in the Farms all the way from Mack to Lake Shore Road. The restoration time is expected to be 11:30 p.m. Friday. The outage caused Grosse Pointe Public Schools to close Barnes Early Childhood Center, where many programs meet in the summer including Safety Town. It will remain closed through Friday with all programs cancelled. District officials are trying to find a make up day for the programs. Residents and …
Monday, July 18, 2011
A Grosse Pointe Woods neighborhood plagued by power outages will receive fuse upgrades to limit the span of outages. DTE says the work was to have been completed 4 years ago.
DTE officials promised work would be complete by Nov. 30 on the power grid serving a neighborhood plagued by outages, saying the work should have been done four years ago. DTE engineer Ron Gerken plans to return to City Council Dec. 12 to confirm the completion of the work, he said at a brief meeting Monday with Grosse Pointe Woods City Council. One of the 1,198 residents in that neighborhood, Tom DeBoever of Aline Drive, complained to DTE after he was out of power for 20-plus hours June 9. DeBoever's complaint prompted Gerken to recheck work at the power grid site, Gerken said Monday. He said that was when he discovered that work that should have been completed four years ago hadn't been. Fuses will be added to each section of the power …
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Blairmoor Ct & Marter Rd, Grosse Pointe, MI
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Marter Rd & Vernier Rd, Grosse Pointe, MI
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Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Most of the outages in the City and Farms have been restored, meanwhile the section of Grosse Pointe Park and a small area of Detroit remain without power.
About 4,000 customers throughout the metro Detroit are still awaiting restoration following Saturday's storms, including 1,404 in Grosse Pointe Park and a few blocks into Detroit. Currently, there is not an estimation about when the power will be restored but DTE crews were spotted in and around the Park and neighboring Detroit throughout Tuesday. The area that remains without power has been given different restoration estimates, including the most recent stating at the latest it would be restored by 11:30 p.m. Wednesday. The outage map late Tuesday however, no longer includes that estimation. Residents have begun throwing out food and are still cleaning up throughout the Pointes from Saturday's storm laced with damaging winds, hail and…
As DTE crews continue restoration of power throughout metro Detroit most of the customers in Grosse Pointe Farms have regained electricity. Meanwhile the outage in the 48230 zip code has grown.
While most of the Grosse Pointe Farms residents who spent their holiday weekend without power have been restored, DTE maps show the outage in the 48230 zip code has grown. DTE originally estimated the area would be restored by Sunday at 11:30 p.m. at the latest but the outage continued into early Tuesday. Growing from about an original 2,500 to 3,036. The number dipped briefly below the original number but then surpassed itself a short time later. According to an outage map at 12:42 a.m. Tuesday, more than 1,400 customers in the Park closest to Detroit are expected to regain power by 11:30 p.m. Wednesday July 6. Another 111 are expected to regain power by 11:30 p.m. Tuesday. Those 1,400 customers were some of the first to lose power …
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Approximately 80,000 DTE customers in Wayne County are still without power this morning and restoration will continue through Sunday and Monday for the Grosse Pointes.
Damaging winds, lightening and even hail are blamed in widespread power outages throughout the Detroit metro area, including more than 3,000 customers in the Grosse Pointes, according to DTE. Of the original 125,000 customers without power, 25,000 have been restored and restoration for those in Grosse Pointe Park is expected at the latest by 11:30 p.m. Sunday. The restoration for the of those who lost power Saturday in Grosse Pointe Farms is expected by 11:30 p.m. Monday, according to the outage maps. However, more customers on the M streets in the farms lost power Sunday afternoon. DTE had no estimated time to restore those customers' powere as of 11 p.m. Sunday. In the Park, the area between Jefferson and Lake St. Clair as well as the …
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Power restoration is expected by 11:30 p.m. and some of the outages are due to trouble with transformers, according to DTE.
Spotty portions of Grosse Pointe Park, and even one small area in Grosse Pointe Farms, are without power today. Some outages began early Wednesday and more have been added throughout the day, according to a DTE outage map, which also details that service is likely to be restored for most of the areas by 11:30 p.m. The outages are near Vernor and Nottingham, Fairfax and Balfour, Pemberton and Essex and a portion of Windmill Pointe Road. There are a few areas just outside of the Park in Detroit also experiencing outages, according to the map, which says 692 people are without power in the 48230 zip code. A search for the 48236 zip code shows there are no outages. At least two of the outages say the cause is related to trouble with …
Monday, June 13, 2011
The 73-year-old man is frustrated with the lack of stability with power to his home. He lives within the neighborhood near Mack and Vernier plagued by power outages.
Tom DeBoever and his wife moved to Grosse Pointe Woods for a better life. The retired couple lives on Aline Drive. DeBoever is overall very satisfied with their decision to move in 2004 but after the most recent power outage, he's frustrated. DeBoever lives in the neighborhood in Grosse Pointe Woods that is plagued by power outages—a problem city officials are well aware of and for which they are trying to set up a meeting with DTE. DeBoever expressed his frustrations about the lack of stable power to his home to Woods council members Monday during their Committee of the Whole meeting. He said he understands work was done a few years ago for improvements, but questions whether it really changed. At 73, DeBoever has no desire to move, he…
Thursday, June 9, 2011
The outages in the Pointes are scattered throughout Grosse Pointe Woods, Farms and City. Some businesses in the Woods had to close for the day or offer limited service.
More than 1,000 residents in Grosse Pointe Woods and Grosse Pointe Farms have been without power since about 3:30 a.m. Thursday, and DTE does not have an estimate about when it'll be restored. Grosse Pointe Woods police are telling residents that DTE officials have said it'll be back by 9 or 9:30 p.m. Thursday, however. The outage closed Mason Elementary School for the day and the hum of generators could be heard before dawn in the Woods. Several businesses along Mack Avenue also closed for the day, including the Big Boy and Subway restaurants. Others offered limited service to customers, including Josef's and Merchants, which were selling their wares in the daylight hours. According to DTE's outage map, there are 1,245 customers in the …
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Ridge Rd & McKinley Ave, Grosse Pointe, MI
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Jimmy
8:18 pm on Wednesday, November 9, 2011
I'd like to remind everyone that intersections without power are to be treated as 4-way stops. Was just out on Grand River and Middlebelt and it seems many have forgot... quite dangerous. more ›