Utility crews progressing with restoration work in Lansing following massive ice storm
LANSING — The number of Greater Lansing residents and businesses still without power after an ice storm hammered southern lower Michigan on Wednesday and Thursday had fallen to less than 1,100 by Friday evening, down from a peak of more than 7,000.
As of 6:30 p.m., about 846 Consumers Energy customers remained without power in Clinton, Eaton and Ingham counties, according to the utility's online outage map.
DTE Energy was still reporting 116 customers without power in an area east of Webberville, plus another 111 in southeastern Ingham County.
The Lansing Board of Water & Light's outage map was showing no outages on Friday evening.
The storm left the region covered with a combination of ice and sleet, with the heaviest icing occurring south of the Lansing area, mostly along the Interstate 94 corridor. Automated sensors recorded 0.44 inches of ice accumulation in Lansing and 0.55 inches in Jackson, the National Weather Service said.
"Jackson, Hillsdale and Lansing was bullseye of heavy icing," said Brian Meade, a meteorologist with the weather service in Grand Rapids.
As of Friday evening, Consumers said 632 customers in Ingham County were still without power, along with 214 in Eaton County. The utility said it had cleared all of its outages in Clinton County.
Statewide, about 149,100 Consumers Energy customers remained without electric service on Friday evening, according to Consumers' outage map. The utility said it had already restored power to 90,000 affected customers and expected most of the remaining outages to be fixed by Sunday, with all restoration work likely to be finished by late Monday.
DTE Energy said it expected to have power restored to 95% of its customers by Sunday.
Contact Ken Palmer at kpalmer@lsj.com. Follow him on Twitter @KBPalm_lsj.
This article originally appeared on Lansing State Journal: Power outages remain, but crews make progress in Great Lansing area
