Power restored to some 200 customers in downtown Ann Arbor early this morning
Editor's note: The number of customers affected by the power outage has been corrected after DTE revised its original estimate.
An underground cable failure knocked out power for about 200 customers of DTE Energy in downtown Ann Arbor on Monday evening, and crews were able to restore service about 1:15 a.m. today, spokesman John Austerberry said.
Austerberry said there is no indication the power outage is related to the construction of an underground parking structure in the area.
Some 200 customers lost power about 7:20 p.m. on Monday, he said.
The outage encompassed portions of an area bounded roughly by South Main Street on the west, Huron Street on the north, Liberty Street on the south and State Street on the east, according to DTE's outage map.
The Downtown Development Authority is building an underground parking structure next to the Ann Arbor District Library between Fifth Avenue and Division Street.
Area affected by power outage shown in green and purple.
Comments
AA
Tue, Mar 29, 2011 : 8:01 p.m.
And this person got paid to put this on the web A day late and about 2 bucks short Must be a real slow day @aa.copm I think aa.com needs to ask for a rebate on the reporting Then they can drop the rates they charge us to place an ad( in or on) the Web site Why would someone want to read my ad if the NEWS is a day late
AA
Tue, Mar 29, 2011 : 9:52 p.m.
What ever Kelly The AA.com has been very slow for about a year I dont think we can get much better My ads still show up very slow and very late Time to use the local rags again I just had to see what my customers complaind about AND YEP ITs AA.Com and not our Co....... Our money is or has been wasted again over the past year One very upset & X customer
Kelly Davenport
Tue, Mar 29, 2011 : 8:37 p.m.
AA, an earlier version of this story was posted last night while the power was still out. It was updated this morning at 6:27 a.m., as noted in the blue type of the headline. I can see the confusion, as the publication date was also changed when it was updated.
AA
Tue, Mar 29, 2011 : 1:26 p.m.
They fixed the power Before they updated this page Hard to think that Edison works that fast Harder and faster than A2.com
Cameron
Tue, Mar 29, 2011 : 1:06 p.m.
Is their a reason that Annarbor.com has to bring up the parking structure in almost every article I run a business downtown and no i don't like the additional costs that i have taken on from the closed streets and bad traffic but please tomorrow i expect to see that someone spilled their coffee on state street and it might have something to do with the parking structure. the power outage was a story when you achally know what caused it say it.
xmo
Tue, Mar 29, 2011 : 1:03 p.m.
Was this part of "Save the Earth" by turning off your power thing?
Tom Joad
Tue, Mar 29, 2011 : 12:04 p.m.
I'm a paying customer, feigned outrage
a2cents
Tue, Mar 29, 2011 : 11:46 a.m.
@ Stefan Blame the mayor, city council, and city administrator. It's got to be their fault. There is blame to be had for not posting police &/or temporary stop signs. At 8:15-8:30, I drove Liberty (& my son was on Huron) where traffic lights were not functioning... & zip, nothing.
Rod Johnson
Tue, Mar 29, 2011 : 12:53 p.m.
At every intersection where the lights were out? Yeah, that's cost effective. Just treat the intersection as if it was a four-way stop. Anyone with a driver's license should be able to do that.
Stefan Szumko
Tue, Mar 29, 2011 : 1:53 a.m.
Blame the mayor, city council, and city administrator. It's got to be their fault. Oh, and President Obama too.
RTFM
Tue, Mar 29, 2011 : 1:01 a.m.
Tokyo's rolling blackouts gone a bit too far!
loves_fall
Tue, Mar 29, 2011 : 12:48 a.m.
I wonder if this has anything to do with the underground parking structure.
actionjackson
Tue, Mar 29, 2011 : 1:48 p.m.
Third paragraph!
godsbreath64
Tue, Mar 29, 2011 : 12:31 a.m.
Wow, a real news story. Thank you