BRANCH COUNTY, MI (WTVB) – Consumers Energy reported Wednesday morning that 263 Branch County customers were still without power almost one week after two devastating storms ripped through the county within 16 hours of each other.
Over 1,700 customers system wide were still in the dark with most of the remaining outages in Calhoun, Hillsdale and St. Joseph Counties.
One listener says his brother who lives five miles north of Quincy has been out of power for eight days.
According to the Consumers Energy web site’s outage page, the remaining outages in Branch County were mainly between North Snow Prairie and Athens Roads and along Curtis Road east of Quincy-Grange Road.
About 300 customers in the Tekonsha area are still in dark as of Wednesday morning.
Consumers Energy says those without power should get it back sometime on Wednesday.
Roughly 2,000 line workers from Consumer’s and seven other states worked 16-hour shifts over the past week.
The article says “almost a week” – my brother has been out for 8 days. He lost it during the first storm and it hasn’t been restored yet. He lives about 5 miles north of Quincy.