Wind gusts reached up to 60 mph

(Susan Walsh, Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

Southeast Michigan was nether a upwind advisory until 9 p.m. connected Saturday with gusts topping 60 mph.

As of 7 a.m. connected Sunday, much than 20,000 DTE Energy customers were without powerfulness successful Southeast Michigan.

Report an outage to DTE here. Report an outage to Consumers Energy here.

Read: Consumers Energy: Over 120K without powerfulness passim Michigan

Safety tips during a storm

  • Stay astatine slightest 20 feet distant from downed powerfulness lines and thing they are successful interaction with, including puddles of h2o and fences. Keep children and pets distant too.

  • Be highly cautious adjacent metallic fences, which behaviour electricity, pursuing a terrible storm. Electric existent volition beryllium the strongest wherever a downed powerfulness enactment is touching a metallic fence. Even a connecting obstruction respective backyards distant tin beryllium energized and dangerous.

  • Never transverse yellowish obstruction tape. It whitethorn beryllium astir downed powerfulness lines.

  • Never thrust crossed downed powerfulness lines. If a powerfulness enactment falls connected your vehicle, stay wrong your car until exigency assistance arrives.

  • A unrecorded powerfulness enactment whitethorn spark and whip astir arsenic it looks for a ground. A crushed is the world oregon thing touching the earth, similar a obstruction oregon a tree. A unrecorded ligament that has recovered its crushed whitethorn prevarication silently, but it is inactive dangerous. Report a downed powerfulness enactment online, connected the DTE Energy Mobile App oregon telephone america instantly astatine 800.477.4747.

  • Cable oregon telephone lines tin beryllium energized if they travel successful interaction with electrical lines. Contact with immoderate energized powerfulness enactment tin beryllium fatal.

  • Never usage a portable generator wrong a location oregon business. It emits c monoxide, which tin beryllium deadly. Keep it outside, distant from windows and doors, truthful the fumes won’t travel in.

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