Michigan communities help clean up after Wednesday’s storms

GROSSE POINTE, Mich. – A lot of people spent Thursday cleaning up the damage that was left behind after severe weather rolled through Metro Detroit.

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An estimated 227,000 DTE customers were left without power, but power is expected to be restored to everyone by Saturday.

In Grosse Pointe, most of the neighborhoods had a few branches or limbs down, but some trees came down completely.

One house was destroyed by an entire tree that collapsed into it. Another tree, estimated to be about 100-years-old, grazed a nearby home.

“I just saw it all come down from my window and it was a simultaneous large burst of air that took down both of these tree limbs in a chain reaction," said Marybeth Nicholson. “At the same time, I could hear like a really large boom. It seemed like everything in this little area went down at the same time.”

One block away, a string of houses caught fire as transformers exploded and sprayed sparks for hours.