More than 10,000 Livingston County residents who have been without electricity since a Monday storm may have to wait another day for their power to be restored.

Christina Schijanow, 33, from Howell, is one of those 10,000. Her power came back for a few hours on Wednesday, then went back out. Now, her family isn't expected to get its power back until Saturday.

She said it's been hard because it's hot and they don't have air conditioning right now. On top of that, they also have a 7-month-old child.

"It's quite miserable," she said. "We need our power back on desperately."

They've filled up jugs of water and picked up free water from DTE. She also bought a generator Thursday, but it's not quite strong enough to power the microwave to sterilize her baby's bottle. She's been having to use a different formula than normal, too, because they don't have the refrigerator to keep their usual formula cold.

Monday evening, a line of thunderstorms swept across Michigan packing winds up to 70 mph. Nearly half a million customers were left without power, including more than 265,000 DTE Energy customers.

DTE spokesperson Dana Blankenship said Friday she couldn't say how exactly many Livingston County residents were still without power.

According to DTE's online outage map, there are still as many as 18,000 DTE customers in Livingston County without power. The company said as of Friday morning about 52,000 homes and businesses, or 3% of total DTE customers were without power.

Most are expected to come back by 10 p.m Friday., however some might not have power restored until 10 p.m. Saturday, the company said. To view the interactive information, visit the DTE Outage Center at Outage.DTEEnergy.com.

DTE's online outage map showed four outages of 500 to 1,500 customers south of Interstate 96 in the Marion Township, Pinckney and Camp Dearborn areas, about a dozen outages of 100 to 500 customers spread across the county and about 70 smaller outages of 99 or fewer customers.

Blankenship said most of the remaining repairs are to individual homes.

“That’s what a lot of today’s restorations are,” she said.

DTE offers a $25 credit for customers who are without power for 120 hours, or five days, according to the DTE website. To apply for the credit, customers can go to DTE's website and go to Damage and Reliability Credits under the Emergency and Safety tab.

The company said as of 7 a.m. Friday, it has restored power to more than 80% of its customers impacted by what it described as "hurricane-level winds" from Monday's storm. They said the storm brought down 3,300 power lines across its southeast Michigan territory.  

Sophia Lada is a reporter for the Livingston Daily. Contact her at slada@gannett.com or 517.377.1065. Follow her on Twitter @sophia_lada.