Ms. Brenz, 32, was one of 69,000 customers who lost power Wednesday night after powerful storms downed trees and toppled power lines compounding the effects of an intense heat wave that has scorched the Midwest and other areas of the country.
Deb Dworkin, a 52-year-old human resources manager, lives in a bungalow in Berkley. She said her upstairs bedroom got crazy hot during the outage. She slept on her couch for two days, using a battery-powered travel fan and a neck towel filled with ice cubes.
Michael Reiterman, a 25-year-old assistant financial planner who lives in New Baltimore, tried similar remedies in his home, including shutting the blinds to keep out the heat. But his ultimate solution was to shuttle between his home, which had outages intermittently, and his fiancee's house, which maintained power through the week.
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