Flooding, power outages hit Michigan as storms rake Midwest

DETROIT (AP) — Flooding brought by heavy rains shut down some freeways in the Detroit area Thursday as waves of thunderstorms made their way across large swaths of the Midwest. Thunderstorms that toppled trees or tree limbs onto power lines left nearly 1 million homes and businesses in Michigan without power at one point Thursday morning. DTE Energy says that by 9:30 p.m. Thursday about 550,000 of its customers in southeastern Michigan still had no power. Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana also have been hit by recent rounds of storms. Indiana Michigan Power said 9,623 of its customers in southwestern Michigan and northwestern Indiana were waiting Thursday night to have their service restored.