JACKSON, MI (WTVB) – Saturday’s windy weather which featured gusts as high as 45 mph at the Branch County Memorial Airport caused over 800 Consumers Energy customers in Branch County to lose their power.
As of Monday morning, 205 customers were out in Branch County, another 479 were without service in Hillsdale County, with nearly 800 out in Calhoun County.
Consumers Energy says crews have made excellent progress restoring electric service to nearly half of those customers impacted by the weekend’s powerful windstorm.
The energy provider is also taking steps to prioritize polling locations that are without service to ensure residents can vote in Michigan’s midterm elections on Tuesday.
As of 5:30 a.m., over 46,000 Consumers Energy customers are without power. A total of about 140,000 customers have been affected by the damaging weather that featured wind gusts over 65 mph.
With midterm elections taking place Tuesday, Consumers Energy is working to ensure residents in its service territory, whose polling precincts have been impacted by the extreme weather, have the chance to vote in person.
The energy provider worked with the Secretary of State’s office and local clerks to identify polling locations in its service territory affected by the storm. Those locations are being prioritized with the goal of restoring each voting location by 11 p.m. Monday.
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