Utility crews work to restore power to more than 300,000 Michigan customers by Monday

The ice storm that hit Michigan on Wednesday brought much more than freezing temperatures, snowfall and high winds. It left thousands of Michigan residents with no lights and no heat, and some are still scrambling to stay warm while waiting for the power to come back on.

Utility crews are still working to restore power to thousands of customers in Michigan. As of Sunday afternoon, more than 300,000 Michigan customers are still without power.

According to a news release from DTE, they hope to have a majority of customers with power by the end of the Sunday. They plan to focus on power outages near K-12 schools so students and teachers can return as scheduled Monday.

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So far, DTE has restored power to more 450,000 customers but the DTE outage map is currently showing multiple outages across the metro Detroit area.

Consumers Energy crews are also working to restore power its customers including the Jackson, Hillsdale and Kalamazoo areas. More than 2,000 lineworkers are working and their efforts are expected to be completed on Monday, while most customers are expected to have power back Sunday.

The Consumer Energy outage map currently shows more than 2,000 outages.