Outages Increase With Stormy Weather, DTE Works To Get Customers Back On Grid

DETROIT (WWJ) - About 3,000 energy customers are still without power in metro Detroit, five days after a powerful storm.

DTE spokesman Scott Simons says only about a thousand outages were recently restored as new reports of outages came in during Wednesday's high winds and rains. [DTE OUTAGE MAP]

"We had some wind gusts up to 40 mph that caused some scattered outages ... right now we are addressing outages that affected customers last weekend," said Simons.

Restoring the power to all DTE Energy customers has been hampered by another round of heavy rains.

"We lost ground because of the heavy rain," said Simons. "That's one of the unfortunate things that happened today, customers who have been out five and tomorrow it will be six days those customers definitely have priority."

What happens at the end of the restoration process is you don't have as many customers who can be restored with that one fix, it takes just as much work to restore 600 customers, or 500 customers, or 40 customers that it did to get back 2000 said Simons.

Simons says all the previous outages should be restored by tomorrow night. DTE will then address the new scattered outages called in during the heavy rains on Wednesday.

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Here's the three-day forecast:

Thursday: Mostly to partly cloudy Hi 67/Lo 59

Friday: Looking at a mostly cloudy day with a Hi 65/Lo 53

Saturday: A break for the weekend partly sunny Hi 62/Lo 52

Get the complete forecast anytime on CBSDetroit's Weather Page.