Consumers Energy restores power to 80% of customers after storms disrupt service

• Consumers Energy restored power to about 80% of customers hit by two rounds of storms over the past 24 hours.
• About 41,000 of 51,000 affected customers were back online as of 12:00 p.m. Friday.
• Most remaining outages were expected to be restored Friday night, with the hardest-hit areas targeted for Saturday.
• Crews continued work in the hardest-hit areas, including Ingham, Shiawassee, and Monroe counties.

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