Power outages continue in Michigan amid severe storms, with outages also reported elsewhere
More than 90,000 remain without power in Michigan after severe storms and a tornado. Separate outages affect 40,000 customers in Nova Scotia, and a planned 12-hour outage is scheduled in eThekwini, indicating multiple locations rather than one expanding outage.
By DoomRadar · Published on DoomRadar .
Why it matters
The Michigan outage remains a major disruption, but the other events are separate rather than a geographic expansion of the same outage.
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- More than 97,000 still without power in Michigan on Saturday morning ↗yahoo.com · Recorded source date: Sep 5, 2026, 12:16 PM UTC
- EThekwini Municipality confirms 12-hour power outage on Sunday ↗thesouthafrican.com · Recorded source date: Sep 5, 2026, 3:01 PM UTC
- DTE Outage: More than 90,000 still without power after severe storms, tornado ↗fox2detroit.com · Recorded source date: Sep 5, 2026, 6:31 PM UTC
- Nova Scotia flooding forces road closures, while 40,000 report power outages ↗theglobeandmail.com · Recorded source date: Sep 5, 2026, 8:01 PM UTC
- Crews working to restore power to tens of thousands of Southeast Michigan residents after severe storms ↗cbsnews.com · Recorded source date: Sep 5, 2026, 11:16 PM UTC
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