MARQUETTE, MI-- UPPCO says fewer than 500 customers remained without power Tuesday night, following Monday’s severe storm and Tuesday’s snowfall.
Around 50 field employees and 50 contractors from other utilities have been working to restore electricity nearly round the clock, but heavy snow hampered efforts to replace a number of utility poles damaged by 70- to 80-mile-per-hour straight-line winds that whipped through Marquette and Iron counties early Monday morning. The majority of the customers without power are in Republic and the greater Ishpeming area.
UPPCO is reminding residents that falling trees or limbs may have damaged electric service equipment they own, like their meter. UPPCO can’t reconnect service until the damaged equipment is repaired by a licensed electrician.
