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That won't be nearly enough. There isn't nothing more Pure Michigan (tm) than potholes and power outages.
I've lived in a few different places in Michigan and power outages aren't really that common and even when the weather is bad, it's normally not down that long.
The worst I ever had was three days after a record ice storm that shut the area down for a few days. Other than that, never lost power for more than a few hours at most.
Yeah, I don't think I've had a power outage that lasted more than a minute or two in years, and I've lived all over the state
In Ann Arbor I've had at least 2 instances where my power was out for 3 or more days and a bunch of people were without power for over a week during the ice storm this year. Some of those folks lost power again for multiple days in subsequent storms.
That ice storm turned me into an advocate for municipal power. DTE is the worst and shouldn't be allowed to pocket our tax dollars and raise rates while they let the grid fall apart
The ice storms this year were so bad in Ann Arbor that when DTE was announced as the sponsor of a musical I was in the orchestra for, the whole crowd booed.
I was out for 5 days last August. 😐