MACKINAC COUNTY — Cloverland crews, supported by mutual aid teams, have restored 6,360 outages in the past 24 hours.
According to an April 2 news release, approximately 1,700 meters remained offline overnight Tuesday, primarily in Mackinac County. Restoration progress has been slow due to the severity of heavy ice-covered limbs and trees on power lines. Crews have been clearing 60-100 trees daily since the start of the storm Sunday.
Cloverland remains in active coordination with the State Emergency Operations Center (SEOC) and local emergency managers. Due to the challenging conditions for restoration progress and incoming inclement weather, Cloverland urges its members to remain prepared for an extended, multi-day outage. Warming shelter information is available county emergency management.
“We’ve had excellent collaboration with county and regional emergency management officials throughout this event. Together, we’ve closely monitored and responded to fuel supply, road conditions and other key factors that impact power restoration abilities. Their support has been instrumental in helping us restore service as safely and efficiently as possible,” said Cloverland Electric’s Director of Engineering, Brian Lavey. “We are not out of the woods yet as today’s system rolls through and throws a few more punches at us.”
Vegetation damage is widespread across the southern part of the EUP service area. Cloverland crews continue restoration efforts with support from mutual aid teams from CC Power, UPPCO, Marquette Board of Light and Power and PUC Services Inc. Four crews from Davey Tree Expert Company, Cloverland’s vegetation contractor, are working to clear trees in rights-of-way. Despite the challenge of more inclement weather, crews are working to restore outages as safely and efficiently as possible.