In Royal Oak at the city hall, a sign in the the widow reads: "Closed for business."
Still powerless, like many others in metro Detroit, homes and businesses are at the mercy of Mother Nature and DTE.
“We’ve been down since Sunday," said Manny Castanes, manager of Lockhart's BBQ. "We brought in dry ice for our coolers, now we’ve got a generator company coming to hook up our essential stuff."
It’s also been three days since 4th Street Auto Care has been able to make any repairs.
“As far as the shop power, the hoists... everything (is) down. We can’t do work on vehicles,” says Bill Parter of 4th Street Auto Care.
Both businesses say with the DTE estimates, they’ll be powerless a little longer.
According to DTE Energy, 105,000 customers across southeast Michigan are still without power following Sunday's ice storm.
“There’s potential that we won’t be back online until Wednesday night at 11 p.m.,” Castanes said.
“We have people calling. Our phone lines are down, and it’s lost revenue to the restaurant and to the employees."
The cost could be even higher for those living at Imperial Senior Suites in Southfield.
Rachelle Sloat is the legal guardian for her former neighbor who now lives in Imperial. Over the phone, she tells us she received a frightening call from the senior living center saying that her friend was taken to the hospital after falling in the dark.
“They said we had to carry her down the stairs," Sloat said. "And I said why did you have to carry her down the stairs? They said we had no electricity, no power, no water."
Her loved one is safe and being treated in the hospital, but she’s worried for the other senior citizens still living there without heat and without lights for the third cold night in a row.
“How can you not have a generator when you run a senior citizen building," she added.
DTE tells 7 Action News that crews have been working on the circuit that supplies power to Imperial Senior Suites in Southfield since 10 a.m. on Tuesday morning. However, the fix is more complicated than expected, they say.
They are hoping to have the power on by Tuesday night, but aren't sure that will happen.
7 Action News called Imperial Senior Suites for comment, but those calls have yet to be returned.
