As winter weather continues to batter much of the country, significant power outages were reported, particularly in the Midwest. In Michigan, over 809,000 customers were left in the dark Thursday.
According to outage tracker PowerOutage.US, Michigan saw more power outages than any other state as of about 9:00 p.m. ET Thursday – followed by over 38,000 outages reported in Illinois and more than 33,000 outages seen in Wisconsin.
More than 94,000 outages were reported in Wayne County, home of Detroit, and over 92,000 were reported in Oakland County, per USA TODAY Network’s power outage tracker.
More than 82% of energy customers – over 17,000 homes and businesses – were in the dark in Hillsdale County, located in southern Michigan near the Ohio border.
Much of Michigan, particularly the northern part of the state and Upper Peninsula, werunder winter storm warnings and winter weather advisories on Thursday , according to the National Weather Service.
See a tracker of power outages in Michigan below.
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