Cloverland Electric Cooperative and Edison Sault Electric attributed power outages in the county to a series of storms that traveled through the region last week.

Extreme weather conditions, including rain, freezing rain, snow, and high winds, brought down trees and power lines, said company representatives Monday.

About 1,000 customers were without power Sunday, December 28, said Wendy Malaska, a spokeswoman for Cloverland Electric Cooperative. The outages were the result of downed wires and trees falling on wires.

Crews began responding to outages early Sunday and by 9 p.m. power had been restored to most customers. During that time, about 150 customers in Brevort were without power.

As winds increased to about 30 miles per hour in the Straits Monday afternoon, December 29, the company began responding to new outages across the region.

Cloverland Electric serves 19,000 customers in Mackinac, Luce, Chippewa, and a portion of Schoolcraft counties.

A couple of downed wires caused sporadic minor power outages in St. Ignace over the weekend of December 27 and 28, as a result of the weather, said Craig Davidson, manager of Edison Sault's St. Ignace division, including an outage at Maverick Construction's building on North State Street. No residences were without power for more than a moment or two.

"There was nothing major," he said. "We've been pretty lucky. Extensive tree trimming has been very helpful."