Shocking drone footage has captured the damage caused by a storm in Michigan which left up to 400,000 homes without power.
One home was split entirely in two after enormous trees fell straight through it, tearing the roof and walls to shreds.
The extraordinary vision shows furniture strewn across the front of the home, a mattress hanging precariously from the second floor and parts of the home’s structure dangling within the rubble.
‘It was luckily unoccupied,’ drone operator Nate, of Nates Dronography, said.
The clip was captured on Wednesday, August 28, a day after intense storms ripped through Michigan, destroying power lines and damaging homes and cars in its path.
Shocked locals questioned the quality of the build, given the level of destruction.
‘Doesn’t look like it was built to withstand anything,’ one person said.
‘Quality craftsmanship these days… Definitely should not have went down to ground level give how close the tree was to the home.’
Power went out in homes across two dozen counties on Tuesday night, and according to poweroutage.us, some 340,476 customers were still impacted through Wednesday.
The bulk of the homes impacted were connected to DTE Energy, based in Detroit, prompting fierce backlash from customers.
Extraordinary videos show the storm destroying power lines and downing trees as heavy winds and intense rain hammers parts of the state.
One video captures the moment lightning strikes up a highway, appearing almost directly on top of a motorist, while photos show cars crushed by trees which have fallen across residential streets.
‘Tuesday’s storm caused many downed wires in Southeast Michigan,’ the company said in a statement to X.
‘Nearly 800 additional contract crews are on their way to Michigan to assist with restoration and restoration updates will be added to the DTE outage map once they are available.’
Furious customers have raised questions about why it is taking so long to restore power.
One said: ‘You legitimately can’t take 2 f***ing days to repair it, all our groceries are gonna spoil and we won’t have air conditioning, you HAVE to get it done quicker.’
Others said it was ironic that DTE was still emailing customers their bills, while they were enduring an outage.
‘200,000+ people have been without power for over 12 hours now. WHY IS THE NUMBER NOT DECREASING????????? Our food is spoiled. People can’t work from home. No fans or A/C when it’s in the mid 80s and humid. Our pets are suffering.’
‘They charge every user a fee every month for a “power recovery charge” which is so when outages happens they can fix it, at least that’s their explanation, so why am I without power for 5 hours?’
DTE acknowledged ‘how frustrating power outages can be, especially today, when we’re all so reliant on electricity to live, work and play’ and assured customers crews are working tirelessly to restore power.
The region is grappling with an intense heatwave expected to last several more days.