"I was just checking a couple emails and text messages on my phone, sitting in bed for a little bit and uh heard the trees, basically the branches start to brush against the house, and of course once I heard that I knew, I thought oh that tree's coming down!"
It wasn't the best way to start the morning for Dwan Bradshaw, as wind knocked a tree onto his house, but he was still in good spirits.
He's already getting the ball rolling on getting the tree down and fixing the house, but Bradshaw says he wasn't surprised the tree fell over.
"It's a big tree, and like where it's sitting it appeared to be laning and you know, me and my neighbors were kind of talking about it and joking about it one day saying 'oh man if that thing goes it's going to it us both' and that's exactly what it did!"
With trees like that one falling because of the winds, power lines had no chance. That's why Terry DeDoes of Consumer's Energy saw power outages skyrocket across mid-Michigan.
He says the outages were nearly climbing by the minute, but states once the wind dies down, power should be restored quickly.
"Every storm is different," DeDoes explains, "the benefit here is once these high winds pass, we should have near ideal conditions for the crews to be working in to be able to get customers restored."
And although Bradshaw isn't all that upset now, he knows reality will soon set in.
"It'll hit me tonight," he says, "when we're sitting in a hotel room."
