In less than 48 hours, Indiana Michigan Power has restored power to 95% of the nearly 20,000 customers who lost service in the damaging weekend storm that struck southwest Michigan and northern Indiana with winds in excess of 60 mph and frequent lightning.

Many of the locations where crews are now working to restore power involve smaller outages, some in harder-to-reach, off-road areas. More than 200 employees and contractors remain on the ground working to restore customers in the remaining outages.

Crews continued to find damaged equipment as they addressed outages throughout the day, bringing to 34 the total number of broken poles, including 22 in the Benton Harbor area. And 34 spans of wire were down.

As of 5:30 p.m., about 1,750 customers remained without service in the Benton Harbor area and about 100 in the Three Rivers area. I&M crews are continuing to work in the field to restore a vast majority of those customers remaining out by 11 p.m. tonight.

Due to extensive storm damage complete restoration to fewer than 200 customers in the Paw Paw area will take place on Monday, as well as fewer than 100 customers in the Almena area and less than 60 customers in the Covert area.  Crews will continue to work to restore power until all customers have service.

Specific estimated restoration times can viewed online for all remaining storm related outages. (See “Stay Informed”, below.)

I&M reminds our customers that temperatures and humidity levels remain high. We urge anyone working or spending much time outside to look for signs of heat stress and take appropriate precautions at the first sign of heat-related fatigue.

I&M thanks our customers for their patience and understanding as we continue to restore each and every customer who remains without service.

 STAY INFORMED

I&M encourages customers to use the Indiana Michigan Power app to monitor the status of any outage affecting your home or business. IndianaMichiganPower.com/App

You can sign up for text and email alerts on the app or at IndianaMichiganPower.com/Alerts

See the location and status of outages using our outage map at IndianaMichiganPower.com/OutageMap

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