From [HERE] A power outage has been affecting several government buildings in Detroit and left some areas without working traffic lights. Detroit Public Schools says it's dismissing students at mid-day Tuesday because of the outage, which happened around 10:30 a.m. Detroit's public lighting department, which serves areas affected by the outage, says "a major cable failure" [?!?] caused the city's aging grid to lose power.

All customers of the municipal power system affected by the outage had their power back, the city announced at 5:15 p.m. The outages happened around 10:30 a.m.

The new white Mayor (Detroit is 95% non-white) Mike Duggan said the power grid hasn't been modernized in decades in Detroit, which is emerging from the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. DTE Energy Co. is taking over the department and spending hundreds of millions of dollars upgrading the system over four years. [MORE]