There are still a few people in the Monroe County area who have no electricity at their homes, according to reports in today’s edition of The Monroe Evening News.
My power did come back on after five hours off yesterday.
It should be pretty obvious to local residents by now that it can take days to get [...]

Hmm. Now our home is included in the neighborhood power outage.
I got a call from my husband who just woke up and realized nothing was working.
I told him I’d be home in about an hour and a half with ice to save what groceries we can (I have an appointment to keep first).
Daughter’s assignment is [...]

My home in the city of Monroe does have power. We lost electricity briefly and went into brownout conditions early Sunday as a result of the windstorm in southeast Michigan. But the electricity came back on.
Many of our neighbors, however, don’t have power and it is 6 a.m. on Tuesday. Some of the blacked-out homes [...]

There are still generators humming in some Monroe neighborhoods where residents are without power.
The Monroe Evening News has updated its headlines for the day, and the print editions will be in the racks soon. Among the stories you will find is Dean Cousino’s report: Wild weather.
A snippet:
The winds knocked down power lines or blew tree [...]

This morning and lunchtime might be a really good opportunity to check your property and make sure nothing is loose that could blow away and cause another – or lengthier – power outage.
The National Weather Service in Detroit is forecasting wind gusts up to 44 mph later today for Monroe County, Mich.

If you’ve been without power for long enough to start losing food in the refrigerator or freezer, you’ve got to do some quick thinking as to what’s for dinner.
Here’s a post on that topic I did during a power outage last June when my home was off line for almost 48 hours:

When the electricity goes [...]

Given the fact there are THOUSANDS of people in southeast Michigan without electricity (DTE Energy web update), a lot of you in the area are probably trying to scramble for batteries and candles.
Where can you get that stuff cheap this week in Monroe?
Candles
Go to any of the Christmas clearance aisle at the local stores and [...]

Now, did your wireless phone go out of service yesterday?
The MonroeTalkers were chatting about that situation, and by following their links one could find a news story that was posted at Chicago Breaking News.
Bottom line: a power outage Sunday morning at an AT&T facility in Bloomfield, Mich., resulted in mobile phone problems in several states.
Some [...]

Hmm. … It appears that windstorm Sunday caused quite a bit of damage in the Monroe area. There are still a lot of people without electricity, cell phone service has been spotty for some, cablevision is still out in some areas.
I’ll get some “how to cope” posts up here while I’m helping with news coverage [...]

Our cablevision and cell phone service are both off-line today, most likely because of the windstorm that has been screaming for several hours in southeast Michigan.
Frankly, we’re lucky we still have power and Internet. We had brownout conditions early this morning. There are several wires down two blocks away and at least one of the [...]