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A look at the damage left behind after severe storms roll through Metro Detroit

More than 200K without power in SE Michigan

PLYMOUTH, Mich. – Many people and cities are cleaning up Wednesday morning after severe storms rolled through Metro Detroit overnight.

As of 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday more than 200,000 DTE Energy customers were still without power. Severe storms in the early-morning hours Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024, caused power lines to come down and uprooted trees.

Records indicate that wind speeds hit around 70 miles per hour.

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In Plymouth, the storms hit the city around 2:30 to 3 a.m. Local 4 crews saw many downed trees in one Plymouth neighborhood, including one that had been split down the middle and was laying across the road.

---> Parts of Metro Detroit under marginal risk of severe storms Wednesday

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Downed tree in Livonia on Aug. 27, 2024. (WDIV)
Downed tree in Livonia on Aug. 27, 2024. (WDIV)
Downed tree in Livonia on Aug. 27, 2024. (WDIV)
Downed tree in Livonia on Aug. 27, 2024. (WDIV)
Downed tree in Livonia on Aug. 27, 2024. (WDIV)

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Kayla is a Web Producer for ClickOnDetroit. Before she joined the team in 2018 she worked at WILX in Lansing as a digital producer.

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