r/Michigan

Great investigation and journalism by Todd Spangler from the Detroit Free Press.

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Final verdict:

“...it appears that El-Sayed made criticisms within ordinary bounds as a commentator or candidate.”

– Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press

I go back and forth and between Ohio and Michigan every few years and I must say that Michigans power system, especially the Ann Arbor area, is the worst I've ever encountered.

We're currently on day 2 of no power and it's expected to go at least 3 days.

Now. I understand it's a holiday. And obviously everyone's stressed about it. But it's not just this weekend. Since living here for the past 4 years there have routinely been 3 or 4 outages a year. That's insane considering I've never experienced a single outage in Ohio. Not in Toledo, not in Cincinnati and not in rural Ohio either.

But just across the border, not 10 miles from Toledo, I've experienced several.

It truly is bad. And anyone that doesn't think so is just used to it.

ETA: so the consensus here is that they never buried the power lines and probably never will bc it's not profitable. Big sad.

I lose power A LOT where I live. It seems like many of us share this.

A whole-home generator is about $14k and I cannot make that work.

However DTE will install basically a transfer switch at your meter that you can attach your own generator to. Has anyone tried this or have any experience with it? I want to find a solution that doesn't break my bank.

There is something g else called an interlock, but I'm very ignorant to how these work and I'd want something easy that my family could use.

We are on Day 2 without power now and every storm brings about stress and anxiety and this seems like a solution that would work.

Michigan last in the nation for power restoration times, 9th highest for rates.

Good news for nature, this is encouraging to hear! The base is on a unique wetland called a fen, which is becoming a rare natural ecosystem. Hopefully this sets an example of success that can be copied for other endangered species.

Would you sign a ballot iniative to ammend our state constitution to require that utility companies are publicly owned and operated by the state? Or even just prohibit private for profit businesses from running essential electrical utilities?

It would only take 450k signatures to get it on the ballot. And if it passed it would supercede the legislature entirely, making all of DTEs campaign contributions meaningless.

So if all the people with no power on 4th July weekend signed, we'd already be halfway there.

Oh man. I’ve been going to torch lake ever since my grandparents bought a small cottage up there 30+ years ago…this year, the amount of rude, and honestly, bad boaters was astonishing. Whether it was people not knowing how to dock at dockside, putting a pontoon boat between two other parked boats with 3” to spare on either side, people not knowing how to anchor at the sandbar, starting engines with the props out of the water WITH people just feet away…I don’t know. I’ve never seen it this bad before. Has anyone noticed this?

Saint Clair Shores (Macomb County, 13 Mile and Jefferson Avenue) celebrated America’s🇺🇸 250th Independence Day stupendously! The sky’s were lit up with beautiful bright colors! God Bless America.