(WXYZ) — Hundreds of thousands of people lost power across metro Detroit following storms on Wednesday night and Thursday morning and afternoon.
Severe storms rolled through the area, and 275,099 people are without power, as of 5:05 p.m. Thursday, according to the DTE Outage map.
Watch below: Storms bring down trees and power lines in Center Line
DTE said in an update that more than 2,600 storm response team members are working to restore power as soon as possible, and 800 field team members from outside of Michigan re on the way to speed up restoration.
Earlier, DTE said they expect 80% of customers to be restored by the end of the day, however, that was before a second round of storms moved through the area which increased power outages by more than 100,000.
"We know how challenging it is to be without power. Our Storm Response Teams are working as quickly and safely as possible to restore power to everyone impacted. Please be safe and remain at least 25 feet away from downed power lines or anything in contact with them. Assume any downed line is live and dangerous. And please remember to report your outage to receive restoration updates," DTE said.
