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12 hours after a strong storm blew through the region, many are still without power in the Saline Area. DTE estimated 20-30 percent of the customers in the 48176 zip code were without power as of 3:30 a.m., Thursday.
Despite the inconvenience of power outages and damage to trees throughout the community, Saline seemed to avoid serious damage.
As of around 6 p.m. Wednesday, Fire Chief Jason Sperle said the department was busy.
"We have been steady with calls of downed power lines and trees, but not overwhelmed. Nothing too severe yet," Sperle said. "Sounds like most of the storm avoided us."
Police and fire responded to the area of Saline-Milan Road and Willis Road for a reported downed tree that was on fire.
Police Chief Marlene Radzik said one of the most annoying problems was the light at Michigan Avenue and Harris Street.
"It was flashing red on Michigan and flashing yellow on Harris Street. There've been a lot of angry drivers in Saline with all the construction, and this didn't help. They wanted us out there directing traffic, but our officers were busy on calls for downed trees," Radzik said.
Police also received many concerns about the sirens sounding without a tornado warning. Radzik explained that the siren in the City of Saline, operated locally, only sounds during tornado warnings. The sirens people heard were sounded by Washtenaw County Emergency Management, which has a different threshold for activation.
"The storm had strong winds which knocked down trees. They felt it was appropriate, in the name of safety, to issue a warning," Radzik said. "It wasn't a tornado, but if you were outside or in your car, you were at risk of trees and branches coming down."
There was heavy rain and lightning later in the evening, too.
Early in the morning Thursday, thousands of local DTE customers were still listed as being without power. More than 1,000 customers on the north side of the city and into Lodi and Pittsfield Township were without power.
Another 556 of those customers were in Pittsfield Township, in an area mostly bounded by Moon and Platt Roads. DTE's outage map didn't offer estimates for service restoration for these specific zones, instead estimating that 90 percent of customers would have their power restored by Saturday evening.
Wind speeds greater than 60 miles per hour were measured in Wayne County.
No, the motion to approve & adopt was made by Ceo, seconded by Lesch. If you're interested in an unedited/unredacted version of Monday's meeting, the link to the video recording of our budget work session and regular meeting is provided below -
Thank you to those Council members who support the citizens and the Rec Center.
Please note, the rec center now requires 1/3 to almost 1/2 of its operations be funded by the City of Saline taxpayers. Approximately 10% of our City population uses the facility, while 2/3 of the members are non-resident. It’s time the non City residents of the Saline community pays its fair share.
What happened with the funding for the needed repairs at the Recreation Center? With all of the programs and community services provided at the Recreation Center, the nearby communities spending tens of millions of dollars to build new Recreation Centers, and the number of members/high usage for the Center and part
Name all the municipalities of 10,000 people that have their own Rec Center with a pool. I'm generally curious.
Saline Area Schools needs to take over the Rec Center with a Rec creation millage and maybe a short bond issue, too, for improvements.
The mayor and city council love to spend taxpayer dollars frivolously. More and more $$$ into the rec center, that needs to stop. We still don’t have drinkable water and yet the city keeps raising rates. Can’t speak for everyone but I would much rather have clean water than a “lazy river!”
Sorry, Toby Crotty. Do not align to your assessment or thoughts. While nearby communities are spending tens of millions of dollars to build Recreation Centers (because of their value to citizens and communities), Saline is in the fortunate position of already having a very good facility in place which now needs to
You avoided my main point. The rec center is a nice amenity for those that use it. However, it is not a necessity. Clean safe water that we pay exorbitant rates for IS a necessity for EVERYONE!
The unprofessional behavior while in the supposed role of being a journalist when talking to that protester is ridiculous. The incorrect information and “facts” you spewed during the conversation are just par for the course. Thanks for showing up!
I agree with your comments about this journalist. I use the word journalist loosely here, as a journalist should be bringing forth the views of the people they are interviewing, not bringing their obvious bias into every forced conversation.
I understand the right 4 peaceful protests, why expose children to hate and show disrespect to our flag, what is that teaching the children. As a Korean Veteran I oppose anyone disrespecting our countries FLAG, shame on the protesters,