California was getting only a brief break from winter weather, with rain and snow falling again Sunday.
- Some Michigan residents faced a fourth straight day in the dark on Sunday as crews continued working to restore power to more than 170,000 homes and businesses in the Detroit metropolitan area following last week’s ice storm.
With her husband out of town, Thomas said it was up to her to recharge the battery to their home’s backup sump pump Sunday with her car after she went to multiple stores to find a 30-foot cable.But with the local school district on mid-winter break, Thomas said some of their neighbors have been out of town and will be returning to find a mess from burst water pipes and flooded basements.
She said the power restoration efforts have proved time-consuming because of the large number of power lines that were damaged, including individual lines that link single homes to the grid. Hecht said the utility’s meteorologists have been tracking another storm system that will move into Michigan on Monday, and the utility is “prepared to respond.”
State Sen. Darrin Camilleri, a D-Trenton, said Sunday he’s spoken with the chair of the Senate Committee on Energy and Environment, Sen. Sean McCann, D-Kalamazoo, about such hearings.State Sen. Mallory McMorrow, D-Royal Oak, said Sunday she’s angry about the ongoing outages, and took aim at DTE Energy, saying it needs to upgrade its electricity grid.
Rain and snow were falling again Sunday in Northern California as the first of two new storms started to move in. Blizzard warnings go into effect at 4 a.m. Monday and will last until Wednesday for much of the Sierra Nevada, where crews were still clearing roads after last week’s icy storm.
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