Thousands of people remain without power on this Thanksgiving holiday after the snow and wind storm on Wednesday caused tens of thousands of customers ti lose power throughout the U-P.
At this point, all of the utilities in the region say their crews are working long hours to try to restore downed power lines, often having to move trees to get there, just to find broken poles blocking the way.
There is no firm timeline for restoring power to everybody, but the utilities continue to bring in crews from other areas to help their own crews.
The Upper Peninsula Power Company’s outage map has not been working, but UPPCO posted on Twitter this afternoon that it still had 4,000 outages.
Customers can report an outage at (906) 449-2011 or 1-800-562-7809.
The Cloverland Electric Co-op in the eastern U-P is also having trouble with its on-line map. The co-op started the day with 55-hundred outages after working late into the night Wednesday to restore power to 8-thousand other customers.
As of 2:30 p.m., Cloverland’s outage count was at 2,800 with crews making good headway on outage restoration.
The majority of these outages remain in Sugar Island, Whitefish, Bay Mills, Chippewa, Hulbert, Lakefield, McMillan, Pentland and Portage townships. The co-op says crews make headway on replacing poles and equipment. Mutual aid crews have joined Cloverland crews, which gives us the ability to spread more line crews throughout our service territory. They have a half dozen broken poles, which take time to replace, but crews are working steadily and thankfully the weather is cooperating today.
Customers can report an outage by calling 1-800-562-4953.
The Marquette Board of Light and Power continues to have numerous outages across its service area. Customers can call 228-0300 to report an outage.
We Energies has been working in Dickinson and Menominee Counties to restore power to several thousand customers. Some customers west of Powers-Spalding have gone for more than 26 hours without power.
As of 3:00 ET, We Energies had 3,900 customers still without power.
Customers can report an outage by calling 1-800-662-4797.
Here at the Radio Results Network, NewsTalk 600 WCHT and Kool 105-point-5 have been knocked off the air since Wednesday, and other local radio stations have also been affected.
