UPDATED: More Than 500 Without Power in Birmingham

Updated 4 p.m.: Hundreds of additional Birmingham residents reported losing power throughout a windy Monday, DTE reports. The largest new affected area appears to be around Quarton Lake and south of Maple Road. Nearly 300 customers between Lahser and Covington roads also lost power, as did more than 400 near Telegraph and 14 Mile roads. No restoration time was immediately available. 

Updated 9 a.m: Major traffic delays persist on Telegraph and Lahser roads this morning. Wires down across Telegraph near 13 Mile Road in Bingham Farms has traffic stalled from Quarton.


The high winds and strong thunderstorms that blew through southeast Michigan and the Midwest Sunday night knocked out power to more than 500 Birmingham-area residents, according to DTE. 

The majority of customers affected appear to be in two pockets south of Quarton Road between Woodward Avenue and the Coolidge Highway, according to the DTE outage map. At least 120 other customers between the Birmingham and Bloomfield Hills border are also in the dark. The storm knocked out power there between 8:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m., and may not be restored until 11:30 p.m. Monday.  

Early Sunday, the National Weather Service issued a high wind warning in effect from 5 p.m. Sunday to 5 a.m. Monday as a cold front moved through the area with winds gusts in excess of 55 miles per hour.

More than 200,000 customers throughout DTE Energy’s territory in southeast Michigan lost service in the storm.

Today's forecast calls for more wind and isolated light snow showers after 11 am. Skies will remain mostly cloudy all day with a high temperature of about 43 degrees before noon, according to the NWS. Temperatures will drop into the 30s during the afternoon with a 20 percent chance of snow, and continue to drop into the high 20s overnight.

Check back with Birmingham Patch for updates.