Several rounds of heavy-to-severe thunderstorms rolled through the Central Upper Peninsula Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning, knocking down trees and power lines, and cutting power to thousands of UP residents.
The Upper Peninsula Power Company, as of 4 a.m. Wednesday, reported 723 outages in Delta County, or about 10-percent of its customers. Many of the outages were in the Gladstone area, where many streets had large limbs and other debris strewn across them.
The Gladstone Public Works Department was out late into the night helping to cut large trees away from homes where they had fallen. There was also tree damage in Escanaba, and several small fires were reported from arching power lines.
There were also scattered outages reported by UPPCO in Alger and Marquette Counties.
The Alger-Delta Co-op Electric Association, which serves many rural areas across multiple central UP counties, had some 200 outages as of 3 a.m., with the vast majority of those in Delta County. Just over six percent of their customers were in the dark.
The Escanaba Electric Department had areas of outages late Tuesday night, primarily on the south side of the city.
WeEnergies, as of 3 a.m. ET, had some customers without power in the Hermansville, Powers/Spalding, and Carney areas. That utility was dealing with thousands more outages, though, in southern Wisconsin.
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