Morning power outage affects Bridgeport Twp. bakery - WNEM

Morning power outage affects Bridgeport Twp. bakery

SAGINAW CO., Mich. (WNEM) - The weather on Tuesday morning, March 5, caused a power outage that affected parts of Saginaw County into the early afternoon.

For one sweets shop, that meant it couldn’t bake up as much business.

“Well, it was actually going pretty smooth until about 10 o’clock, and all of a sudden the lights went off. They came back on, we thought ‘OK.’ And then they went off, and we’ve had no power until about 10 minutes ago,” said Greg Sochocki.

Sochocki, owner of Butter Crust Bakery, lucked out and got his power back on a just before noon - a little more than an hour before others did in Bridgeport Township.

“It’s great, it feels good. All the lights are on, the crew is back there working and stuff again,” he said.

A Consumers Energy spokesperson said parts of Bridgeport Township and an area just north of Frankenmuth lost power because of a small storm that came through in the morning. The spokesperson went on to say wind from the storm damaged a piece of equipment on a pole and it needed to be replaced.

Sochocki had his generator ready to go, but he said it can only help so much.

“Can’t see anything, you can’t get anything done in the back. And then people think you’re closed because you have no power, so everybody quits coming in, and you got stuff left over,” he said.

Consumers Energy said power was restored at 1:15 p.m. on Tuesday.

As you can imagine, Sochocki is glad the outage is behind him.

“It’s just one of those things you gotta deal with you know?” he said. “Luckily it doesn’t happen that often. Consumers Energy is pretty good with us.”

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