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MICHIGAN —Six days after storms began knocking out power in Michigan, outages remained in the southeast, southern and central part of the state Monday.

According to PowerOutage.us, 154,950 of the 4.9 million customers it tracks in Michigan still were without power Monday morning. Storms hit Michigan on Tuesday, Wednesday and early Thursday morning of last week.

DTE Energy, the state's largest power supplier and the main power company in Metro Detroit, reported that 40,132 of its roughly 2.2 million customers remained without power Monday morning. Though PowerOutage.us reported that DTE had 122,239 customers without power on Monday.

PowerOutage.us also reported Monday morning that 67,955 of DTE Energy's 529,753 customers in Wayne County, 31,649 of the company's 382,649 customers in Oakland County and 4,634 of the company's 180,901 customers in Macomb County remained without power.

Last Thursday, DTE had reported that 573,258 of its customers were without power.

DTE said last Thursday that 95 percent of its customers would have power by Sunday night, and the company reported that 98.19 percent of its customers did have power Monday morning.

However, DTE said it still had 3,065 crews in the field Monday trying to complete the job.

"We understand how frustrating it is to be without power, and we will continue to work non-stop until every customer is restored," the company staid in a statement. "While most outages caused by last week's storms have been resolved, we're still deploying 3,000 workers in 16-hour shifts throughout our communities to safely restore power as quickly as possible."

PowerOutage.us also reported that Consumers Energy, the state's No. 2 power supplier, with customers in Southern Michigan and Mid-Michigan, still had 26,980 of its 1.8 million customers without power on Monday morning.

According to the National Weather Service, the forecast for the Detroit area on Monday called for a high of 78 degrees and showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 2 p.m.