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More than 450,000 remain without power in Michigan after ice storm
The hill ^ | 02/25/2023 | Jared Gans

Posted on 02/25/2023 7:30:29 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

More than 450,000 Michigan locations remain without power Saturday following an ice storm that brought freezing temperatures to the state.

The power-outage tracking website poweroutage.us reported that more than 470,000 customers, mostly in the southeastern part of the state where the storm hit, are experiencing outages as of Saturday morning. Wayne County, which is home to Detroit, has the most reported outages with more than 170,000, while Hillsdale County has a higher level of outages than any other county, with more than 65 percent of the 21,000 customers tracked experiencing an outage.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Local News; Reference; Weather
KEYWORDS: hillsdalecounty; ice; michigan; power; storm
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To: V_TWIN

Outages are calculated by bill paying locations—those are single family homes, apartments and businesses.

Obviously there are more people in a “location” than one—on average.

Multiplying total locations by two is probably a decent rule of thumb—so 450,000 locations would be close to a million people affected.


21 posted on 02/25/2023 7:58:27 AM PST by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: Blue Highway

Michigan voters are not responsible for election results. Geographically, Michigan is mostly conservative. Detroit votes (not voters) determine election results.


22 posted on 02/25/2023 7:58:39 AM PST by robel
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To: Blue Highway

I wish I could tell you; my understanding is it’s Lansing, Wayne county, and Marquette that decide a lot of this stuff, but you’d figure after the “do” part of FAFO some of these people would learn.


23 posted on 02/25/2023 8:00:44 AM PST by Antihero101607
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To: ConservativeInPA

Freezing temperatures in Michigan, in the winter? Who knew? This is totally unprecedented and more evidence of AGW. /s


24 posted on 02/25/2023 8:01:36 AM PST by Thommas (The snout of the camel is already under the tent.)
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

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25 posted on 02/25/2023 8:02:48 AM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=50%>)
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To: Thommas

It’s lightly snowing here in PA. It ruined my plans to plant tomatoes today.


26 posted on 02/25/2023 8:05:19 AM PST by ConservativeInPA (Stupidly is a moral problem, not an intellectual problem. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27
If Michiganders would have just ate their bugs this storm would have never happened!


27 posted on 02/25/2023 8:05:52 AM PST by PROCON (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Not a good time of year to be without power in Michigan.


28 posted on 02/25/2023 8:11:50 AM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: Blue Highway; Rural_Michigan

We TRY to not elect her, here in the great upnorth, But the liberals in colleges downstate are, as usual in any state, the greater populations.

I am especially sick of her currently.

I would have given a lot to have Tudor Dixon.


29 posted on 02/25/2023 8:12:45 AM PST by MarMema (Orange Putin Bad)
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To: Antihero101607

Can you FAFO for those that are unfamiliar with that acronym? Ie. me.


30 posted on 02/25/2023 8:13:01 AM PST by Blue Highway
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To: ChicagoConservative27
One of my Project Managers live in Michigan and is without power again this morning. She has a natural gas powered Generac so they're ok, she's been tethering her smartphone to her laptop to get work done.

They keep getting told the power will be restored later, and later, and later ...

31 posted on 02/25/2023 8:14:54 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Antihero101607

Gee thanks.

Which state do you live in, please?

I want to find your large cities and see how your numabers play.


32 posted on 02/25/2023 8:15:04 AM PST by MarMema (Orange Putin Bad)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Ice storms are the worst. I’d rather have two feet of snow then a quarter inch of ice.


33 posted on 02/25/2023 8:15:39 AM PST by SamAdams76 (4,895,899 Truth | 87,656,930 Twitter)
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To: MarMema

That’s right I do remember Tudor Nixon she was on Hannity and hearing her speak she made sense and I was sure there was no way she could lose. She didn’t complain after the election so I just assumed everything was fair and square. Having said that I’m surprised Dr. Oz didn’t bitch and moan about voter fraud after the turn out as there was no way Uncle Festivus WON that election. His poor debate performance cemented the deal, and why wasn’t Dr. Oz or even Trump going on about the steal there?


34 posted on 02/25/2023 8:18:43 AM PST by Blue Highway
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To: Sacajaweau

I guess they won’t be charging their EV’s for a while.


35 posted on 02/25/2023 8:23:23 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: V_TWIN

All concentrated in lower Michigan west of the Detroit area, white suburbia and farmland. Map has hardly changed since the storm.
https://www.consumersenergy.com/Outagemap


36 posted on 02/25/2023 8:24:50 AM PST by MomwithHope (Forever grateful to all our patriots, past, present and future.)
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To: unixfox

Such a good point. I’ve let my car sit for a month in the winter...and started right up. I keep the gas tank pretty full.


37 posted on 02/25/2023 8:28:45 AM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: MomwithHope

Same tribe of reprobate Pubs paying for voting for Orange Man, just like Ohio.


38 posted on 02/25/2023 8:29:35 AM PST by Colt1851Navy (What was wrong with Nixon?)
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To: usconservative

She has a natural gas powered Generac so they’re ok...
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Living without some backup energy and plan for how to go through any kind of failure of ‘public infrastructure’ is not a wise move... and when the location is a norther clime, better yet is to have backups for the backups.


39 posted on 02/25/2023 8:34:44 AM PST by hecticskeptic
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To: usconservative

Hmm. A downstaters liberal, I bet.
Sniff.

Only those way down south are without power.

Here in the great upnorth, 45th parallel, it is very bright, sunny, about 7-8 inches on the ground, blue skies.

A truly beautiful day.
With power.

We are 5-6 hours north of Detroit. About 45 minutes south of the greatest bridge ever built, Mighty Mac.

Chickadees are having their morning seed.
Snowmobiles whizzing by every now and then.

Life is good. Picture postcard scenes just outside the window.


40 posted on 02/25/2023 8:35:36 AM PST by MarMema (Orange Putin Bad)
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