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As winter weather continues to batter much of the country, significant power outages were reported, particularly in the Midwest. In Michigan, over 710,000 customers remained in the dark Friday morning.
According to outage tracker PowerOutage.US, Michigan saw more power outages than any other state as of about 6:30 a.m. ET Friday – followed by over 82,000 outages in California and 24,000 in Illinois.
More than 98,000 outages were reported in Wayne County, home of Detroit, and over 90,000 were reported in nearby Oakland County, per USA TODAY Network’s power outage tracker.
More than 79% 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 was under winter storm warnings and winter weather advisories on Thursday , according to the National Weather Service, though those notices had subsided by Friday.
See a tracker of power outages in Michigan below.
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Michigan power outage tracker
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