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>> STORMS METRO DETROIT LEAVING
THOUSANDS WITHOUT POWER AND
DAMAGE ALL ACROSS SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN.
STILL THE WORST IS THAT GROSSE
POINTE WOODS WERE A HOUSE OF
THE FOUNDATION FOR THAT IS NOT
THE ONLY COMMUNITY CLEANING UP
TO DO.
HERE’S A LOOK AT THE POWER
OUTAGE MAP AND YOU CAN SEE THE
OUTAGES ARE PRETTY WIDESPREAD
ALL ACROSS SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN.
RIGHT NOW DTE REPORTING 157,000
CUSTOMERS WITHOUT POWER.
THERE IS A LOT OF CLEANUP AHEAD
MARA McDONALD LIVE THAT GROSSE
POINTE WAS ON WHAT NEIGHBORS
ARE DEALING WITH RIGHT NOW.
MARA?
>> SANDRA FOR STARTERS WANT TO
GIVE EVERYBODY AN IDEA OF HOW
EXTENSIVE THE POWER PROBLEM IS. ERIC CAN YOU TURN THE TOP LIGHT
ERIC CAN YOU TURN THE TOP LIGHT
OFF?
YOU GET THE PICTURE IT IS
PITCHDARK NOBODY HAS POWER AND
IT GOES ON THE STREET AFTER
STREET.
DRIVE DOWN ANY STREET IN THE
POINT AND YOU WILL SEE
LIMESTONE.
AND THEN YOU WILL SEE
SUBSTANTIAL DAMAGE TO HOMES AS
WELL.
JUSTIN WAS TALKING TO US WHEN
THE GLASS STARTED CRACKING.
LIFTED TWO MASSIVE TREES AND
PART OF HIS HOUSE OF THE
FOUNDATION.
>> I HEARD A BUNCH OF TAPPING
AT THIS BACK WINDOW.
ONE DOG FOUND SOMEBODY WHO
MIGHT’VE BEEN BREAKING AND THEY
RAN BACK HERE AND STOPPED AND
SKATED BEFORE THEY HIT THE BACK
OF THE SUNROOM.
BECAUSE IT SLIPPED ON AN ANGLE
FROM THE ROOT SYSTEM OVER HERE.
AND IF YOU NOTICE IT WAS FLAPPING AND HAVE ALMOST LIKE A
FLAPPING AND HAVE ALMOST LIKE A
SCENE FROM JAW’S.
BEING ON THE INSIDE OF THE
MOUTH AND YOU ARE WATCHING IT
JUMP UP AND DOWN.
AND THE HOUSE SEPARATED THREE
OR FOUR TIMES UP AND DOWN.
>> THE SUNROOM OF THE HOUSE HAS
BEEN LIFTED OFF THE FOUNDATION.
THERE’S A TEAR ON THE ROOF AND
THE BACKYARD IS AN ABSOLUTE
MESS.
LUCKILY HE IS OKAY AND SOMEHOW
HAS HIS SENSE OF HUMOR INTACT
WITH EVERYTHING ELSE GOING ON THIS IS 2020.
THIS IS 2020.
WHAT ELSE CAN YOU EXPECT?
I GUESS STILL HERE STILL
BREATHING.
>> HE BELIEVES THIS WAS A
TORNADO LOOKING AT THE DAMAGE
IT IS HARD TO BELIEVE IT
WASN’T.
ALTHOUGH IT WILL BE UP TO THE
WEATHER SERVICE TO MAKE THAT
DETERMINATION.WHAT DO YOU
THINK A TORNADO CAME THROUGH? >> Man: WHAT DOES THIS?
>> Man: WHAT DOES THIS?
WHAT TAKES TWO TREES LIKE
DOMINOES?
>> Sandra: BACK HERE LIVE YOU
DRIVE DOWN ANY STREET IN THE POINT AND YOU WILL SEE TREES AT
POINT AND YOU WILL SEE TREES AT
THE CURB.
IT IS WIDESPREAD.
I KNOW THE POINTS ARE NOT THE
ONLY ONES WHO HAVE THE ISSUE.
JASON GOLDFARB STANDING BY LIVE ON DETROIT’S EAST SIDE.
ON DETROIT’S EAST SIDE.
I HEAR IT IS BAD OVER THERE,
TOO.
>> Jason: MARA, THIS IS ONE OF
THE STREETS THAT ARE
IMPOSSIBLE.
THE TREE SERVICE GOT HERE TO
HANDLE THIS TREE WHICH IS
BLOCKING THIS ENTIRE STREET.
AND THEY SAY IT IS NOT EVEN
CLOSE TO THE WORST THEY HAVE
SEEN TONIGHT.
IT IS MATTER OF FACT LOOK AT
HOW BIG IT IS.
IT IS IN THIRDS PART OF IT OVER
THIS ROAD AND THE REST OF THE
IS ON THAT HOUSE.
WE ARE IN THE EAST ENGLISH
VILLAGE NEIGHBORHOOD.
AND FOR BLOCKS THERE IS NO
POWER HERE.
PEOPLE WILL BE CLEANING UP IN THIS AREA FOR DAYS.
THIS AREA FOR DAYS.
>> IT CAME UP RAPIDLY.
IT IS ALMOST LIKE A MINI
TORNADO.
>> SOME PEOPLE ON DETROIT’S
INSIDE WERE BARELY TO THE
BASEMENT WHEN THE STORM DID ITS
DAMAGE.
>> Man: IT SPLIT THREE
DIFFERENT WAYS.
>> THE TREE IN JEFFREY HAWKINS
BACKYARD WAS SO BIG IT WAS ABLE
TO TAKE OUT SOUTHHAMPTON AND
PPART OF HIS HOUSE.
>> THE BACK PORCH IS GIVEN BACK
THERE.
ON THE BACK.
AND THE ROOF OF TOP WHERE THE
BATHROOM IS THERE IS A HOLE IN
THE CEILING UP THERE.
>> Woman: WHEN I CAME TO THE
BACKSTREET I COULD NOT SEE THE
STREET OR MY HOUSE.
I CAME AROUND I MEAN IT IS
DEVASTATING.
>> THE BIGGEST WORRY WAS THERE KIDS WHO WERE INSIDE AT THE
KIDS WHO WERE INSIDE AT THE
TIME.
>> Woman: THE BIGGEST THING IS
MY FAMILY IS OKAY.
THE HOUSE IS NOT BAD BUT BAD
ENOUGH. > Woman: WE HEARD THE
BIG BOOM ME AND MY FIANCC CAME
OUT SCREAMING TO COME OUT.
>> Reporter: AROUND THE CORNER
ON HERE AFFORD ANOTHER MASSIVE
TREE CRASHED INTO THIS HOME.
>> Woman: YOU ARE ON THE NEWS.
>> Reporter: WE TALK TO AN
82-YEAR-OLD WOMAN IS MASHING UP
THE FAMILY’S CAR.
BLOCKS AWAY IN GROSSE POINTE
WOODS MASSIVE SPARKS SHOOTING
AS FIREFIGHTERS TRIED TO PUT
OUT SEVERAL FIRES CAUSED BY
POWER SURGES AND DOWNED WIRES.
ONE OF THOSE FIRES ON THE SCENE
BEFORE THE HOMEOWNER.
CITY TRY TO HANDLE IT BUT THE
FIRE EXTINGUISHER IT ENDED UP
GOING TO THE FIRST FLOOR WHERE
THEY HAD RENOVATED EVERYTHING.
IT DID HEAVY DAMAGE THERE.E
WERE ON THIS SCENE OF ANOTHER
HOME WHERE THEY HAD RENOVATED HAD A HUGE TREE HAD FALLE AND
HAD A HUGE TREE HAD FALLE AND
RUINED ALL OTHER RENOVATIONS.
I CANNOT TELL YOU HOW MANY
MONSTER TREES WE SAW THAT HAD
FALLEN ON HOUSES TONIGHT JUST
DAMAGE EVERYWHERE.
THERE WILL BE CLEANUP HAPPENING
FOR DAYS TO COME.
AND WEEKS.
LIVE ON THE EAST SIDE JASON
COLTHORP.
>> VERY SERIOUS DAMAGE.
OAKLAND COUNTY HIT HARD.
>> Sandra: WIDESPREAD POWER
OUTAGES AND POWER LINES DOWN
ACROSS THE AREA.
AT LEAST ONE HOME STRUCK BY
LIGHTNING.
THE 19 TIM PAMPLIN HAS A LOOK
AT THE DAMAGE.>> WE ARE ON ADAM SOUTH OF ORION MANY PEOPLE
ADAM SOUTH OF ORION MANY PEOPLE
WITHOUT POWER AFTER THE TREES
CAME CRASHING DOWN.
CREWS WILL BE WORKING THROUGH
THE NIGHT TO GET POWER RESTORED
HERE.
FIREFIGHTERS ALL CHIPPING IN TO
TRY TO CLEAR THE DOWNED TREES
ACROSS SILVER BELLS NEAR SCHOOL
ROAD.
JUST NORTH OF THEIR IN OAKLAND
TOWNSHIP.
THE POWER LINES THIS DEAD TREE
CAME CRASHING DOWN BRINGING THE
UTILITY LINES DOWN WITH IT.
THE STORMS ROLLED THROUGH
DURING THE DINNER HOUR BRINGING
TORRENTIAL.
SOME OF THOSE WIND GUST
MEASURIG ON THE HURRICANE
SCALE.
>> Man: HEARD A LOUD BANG AND
STARTED TO SEE SMOKE AND FLAMES.
>> HE RAN FROM HIS GIRLFRIEND
TOWNSHIP HOME CALLED 9-1-1. HE
SAW SMOKE AND FLAMES BILLOWING
FROM THE BACK OF HIS HOME.
>> Man: WE THINK IT WAS A
LIGHTNING STRIKE ON THE HOUSE.
>> Reporter: THE OCCUPANTS GOT
OUT BUT THE FAMILY DOG
UNFORTUNATELY DID NOT.
FARTHER SOUTH THE PAINT CREEK
TRAIL ONE OF MY FAVORITE SPOTS
NOT LITTERED WITH TREES IN ALL
DIRECTIONS.
FIRST RESPONDERS WERE KEPT ON
THEIR TOES CLEANING UP TREES. AFTER THIS INCREDIBLE STORM.
AFTER THIS INCREDIBLE STORM.
BACK OUT HERE ALONG ADAMS ROAD
THIS IS BETWEEN SILVER BELL AND
ORIENT.
A COUPLE THOUSAND HOMES WITHOUT
POWER AFTER THE UTILITY POLE
HAS TO BE REPLACED.
THAT IS THE SCENE IN OAKLAND