UPDATED: Hundreds In Saline Without Power

Service has been restored to most of the 1,888 DTE customers who lost power Thursday afternoon.

As of 5:37 p.m., 300 customers were without power, down from 1,888 at 5:20 p.m.

While DTE crews have worked to restore power to more than 125,000 customers in southeast Michigan, problems are popping up nearly as fast they DTE can fix them.

"The storms that have been running through here have been brutal, knocking down tree limbs and leaving them weakened. This was really a major storm, knocking down 1,000 lines," said DTE spokesperson Eileen Dixon. "Every crew we have is working around the clock and working really hard, doing difficult, tedious work, to restore service as fast as they can."

Dixon said DTE hopes to all service up by Saturday night, as long as the weather doesn't complicate matters.

There are 195,000 DTE customers without power, down from 325,000 earlier.

Power is out along the U.S. 23 corridor from north of Michigan Avenue to south of Stony Creek Road. With traffic lights out, traffic on Michigan Avenue is snarled.