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). […]

Monroe 2.0 is our newest neighbor on BlogsMonroe. You might have already met Josh, the new blogger, on line as LordFly on MonroeTalks.
One of Josh’s posts, the Monroe Stampede, makes reference to the $5 pizza wars that were intensely fought among the Monroe pizzerias in recent years. But as grocery prices and therefore pizza ingredients […]

Detroit News has this report today: Patience runs out for 45k without power.
A snippet:
DTE Energy spokespeople said the utility has all of their linemen — 650 — on the job and another 300 from other utilities.
They are hoping to get everyone reconnected over the weekend. In Wayne, 1,900 were without power; in Oakland, it was […]

After you get into the recovery stage, but before you forget the details, it’s time to think about what you’ll do the next time there is a lengthy power outage at home.
I did some poking around a couple of hardware stores today and found out what a local homeowner could do to resolve the problem […]

I noticed traffic was a bit busier than usual at Millennium Coin Laundry on Monroe St. in Monroe during the past few days. I used that laundry service when our old washing machine broke, so I know how to use the machines there - basically you feed money onto a card to pay for your […]

The Monroe Evening News reported that one out of every six residents lost power at some point during the past few days. As of this morning, some Monroe County residents are still without power - see DTE Energy’s power outage map. We also have reports from Consumers Energy about lingering outages near the state line.
Some […]