I just had a friend say "I was thinking of moving to Ferndale, but not if my power is going to go out all the time". The storms were really bad, but why is it always West of Woodward?

Actually, we've had quite a few outages east of Woodward since I moved here 11 years ago. This was storm related but DTE does need to update their equipment, etc., in this area.

I have to agree with Kim Dz. The Southeast corner of between Woodward and Hilton lost the power on and off for about 20 minutes but then came back on and stayed on. But DTE needs to upgrade the infrastructure in the city to handle issues beyond the storms that come through the area that all of Michigan is up against. God forbid the power went out during the winter. What is DTE going to tell its customers then? And finally were is our credits that are due to the Ferndale residents for the past summer outage that was due to DTE negligence? I haven't seen mine come on my bill yet!

Have lived in Ferndale twice, as well as 3 other states. The outages this year are the worst of anywhere I have ever lived, that includes Alaska with earthquakes.

Can somone tell me why our City Government or the City Attorney has not filed suit against DTE for the pure greed and negligence in the recent power outages to the city? What to big a company to go up against that they just let them get away with the s*** they put us through this past summer? Gutless is what I call it!

I certainly hope the repair estimate of 9:30 tomorrow night is DTE's worst case. After last month's outage, I would have thought Ferndale would have some priority on the DTE list. Apparently not. Maybe we should just have DTE be a standing agenda item at council?

I agree with Mark. We kept getting false hope during the last outage with the automated message "between 9:30 and 11:30pm". Now you call and get the same message. It doesn't instill confidence to know that estimate is most likely a lie. One of my clients this morning said "DTE should just schedule a time during every council meeting to come apologize". As funny as the comment was, it's also be becoming very sadly true.

Have seen no DTE trucks yet today, out cruising in car to charge phone battery. Saw tree crews, generators for cable and phone lines from their respective companies, and lines in front of restaurants of people with no power that cannot cook. Arts Beats and Eats looks fully functional, with electricity, of which Ferndale is tied into, although most of us have no power

Ferndale~ we have electric vehicle charging stations~ just no power in our homes. Thanks DTE.

I really hope that DTE has Ferndale power restored before 9:30pm. I am still waiting on the credit on my bill from the outage last month. Also, from the 300 dollar food lose a 25 dollar credit will not help that on my bill.

I understand the anger at DTE; I lost food and a refrigerator in July due to the outage. But some people (like the guy next door to me) lost their homes. The damage is so extensive the disaster recovery team worked all night to cut the huge tree off of his roof and cover it so no more water would get in. Damage went all the way down to his basement; house may have to be torn down. Others suffered similar damage. The woman's car two doors down got smashed; others lost their cars too. So, while I hate DTE as much as anyone, I am feeling lucky today.

There were two cars that got hit on my street. Luckily we had no damage other than power loss. Unplug your fridge if you are without power so that when it kicks back on, you don't blow the compressor!

@Eric: I called DTE about the bill credit from the last outage about a week ago. The rep on the phone told me that they have to investigate each claim and when they find that you are eligible, you will see the credit 2-3 billing cycles later. With 7,000 customers out last time, we may not see the credit until Decemeber! Not to mention, 2-3 billing cycles? C'mon! You can't just check the info from that fancy new digital meter and see that it didn't function for three days straight in July? So much for our introduction to the "smart" grid.

I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes.....Sad to see some complaining about so little when the people on the east coast lost so much last week.

Mark-tell that to those that lost loved ones, homes, businesses AND still have no power.What reports did you read?Perhaps our definitions of "suffer" are not the same.

I have never found self flaggelation to bring desired actions in others, such as retoration of power, which is the issue here

Where did you read hurricane? I mentioned the east coast, not any of the hurricanes.Simply meant that while certainly it is a pain with the power outages here in Ferndale I truly feel for all those who have lost much more.Hopefully all here(and everywhere!)will get through with as little loss as possible.Happy holiday to one and all.

I just got power back! I don't want to be too hasty and say that the outage is over though... It came back at about 8:05 I think.

Good to know! im on cambourne and livernois and we don't have power as of yet but now im hopeful! We didn't think it wud be back on tonight.

I have also seen this and would like to agree with Mark. Sure there are bigger things going on in the world. There will always be bigger things, but we are on a local site where people are able to join together and find solutions to problems. We clearly can't stop a storm, but if the situation isn't handled properly we have the ability to ban together and find a solution to what we can control. The power situation in Ferndale is a microcosm of the large things going on in the world. We shouldn't watch our residents be put out repeatedly without doing something.

The argument against complaining at all, because there are "worse situations" often creates complacency and discourages action. This isn't just complaining. This is banning together to share our grievances and now I ask "What do we do about them?". It's not just this time, what about the next storm or god forbid the middle of winter? I'm going to do as much as I can to help Ferndale look at competitors for our electric.

DTE has let Ferndale down. It's giving us a bad reputation. Since yesterday I have been told I should move, and a friend told me he was looking at houses here, but not since we've been having the power outages. Ferndale is a great community the city and residents have done as much as they could during these outages, but DTE has clearly got some explaining to do.

You must all be right about the 9:30 it will be back on thing. My husband was going to get a generator but decided not to because DTE said we would be back on tonight. I just want to cry. Thanks DTE for the great holiday weekend