Michigan storms leave over 340,000 people without power, kill teenager
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[August 31, 2022]
By Kanishka Singh
(Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of
Michigan residents were without electricity on Tuesday after powerful
storms toppled trees and downed thousands of power lines in the state a
day earlier, including one that electrocuted a 14-year-old girl.
More than 340,000 customers remained without power, utility companies
said at around 5 pm ET (9 pm GMT) on Tuesday.
Dozens of schools across southeastern Michigan, including nearly two
dozen in Detroit alone, canceled classes on Tuesday because of the
outages, officials and The Detroit News said.
In Monroe, about 40 miles south of Detroit, a 14-year-old girl was
electrocuted late on Monday when she came in contact with an electrical
line that fell during the storm outside her home, police said.
The girl was walking with a friend in her backyard when she grabbed what
she thought was a stick, but it was actually a charged power line,
officials said in a statement. When first responders arrived, they found
her still in contact with the energized wire. She later succumbed to her
injuries.
A line of storms bringing heavy rain also hit parts of Illinois,
Indiana, Arkansas, Texas and Ohio late on Monday.
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In Ohio, a woman was killed by a tree that fell during the storm, fire
officials said.
An 11-year-old boy died after falling and being swept into a storm drain
during a flash flood in northwest Arkansas on Monday evening, according
to officials there.
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Fallen tree limbs are cleared after
thunderstorms and high winds downed power lines and closed roads in
Holland, Michigan, U.S. August 29, 2022. Cody Scanlan/USA Today
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In Texas' Nolan County, one person was killed when severe winds
caused a tanker truck to roll over, causing at least six accidents,
officials said.
Back in Michigan, DTE Energy said gusts of 70 miles per hour (113 km
per hour) downed more than 3,300 power lines. The utility was
bringing in crews from across the country to make repairs. It
expected to restore power to 80% of its affected customers, more
than 250,000, by late Thursday.
Consumers Energy said it had seen outages in nearly half of
Michigan's counties, with more than 90,000 customers still affected
as of 5 pm ET on Tuesday.
Clear weather on Tuesday was expected to facilitate repair work to
the downed lines, the utility companies said, adding that crews had
worked through the night to restore power after the storms felled
trees and power lines.
Consumers Energy also said that its crews overnight restored power
to about 40,000 customers.
(Reporting by Kanishka Singh; Additional reporting by Jonathan
Allen; editing by Jonathan Oatis, Frank McGurty and Bernadette Baum)
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