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 [...]

There was a basement flood at my home this afternoon. My husband and I caught it just in time, before we had property and appliance damage.
The setup: Power went out at 1:45 a.m. today because of a thunderstorm.
I’m working / on call this weekend. My husband has the weekend off and expected to run errands [...]

I rarely swear. And I’m not going to on the blog. Those are nonsense characters I typed in my headline. Use your imagination as to what word you would replace those characters with.
Power went out again last night at our home and other neighborhoods in the Monroe area. (You can find DTE’s outage map in [...]

The Detroit News is reporting on the hearings that the Michigan Public Service Commission is holding into the recent storm-related power outages. From the first hearing on Monday:
The customers of DTE and Consumers Energy testified before Public Service Commissioner Monica Martinez in Lansing that the power outage was especially tough on isolated senior citizens. The [...]

The Michigan Public Service Commission is holding a series of public hearings across the state to investigate how DTE Energy and Consumers Energy responded to the power outages during recent thunderstorms.
The nearest hearings to our area will be June 30 in Clinton Township and in Pontiac.
There is an Associated Press story on page 3A of [...]

Did you know that the Michigan Public Service Commission allows for customers who have been without electricity for 120 hours – that’s 5 days – as a result of severe weather to get a $25 rebate on their next electric bill?
Go to the PSC site and click on Frequently Asked Questions (it’s a pdf file). [...]