Northern Michigan ice storm was ‘orders of magnitude worse’ than Blizzard of 1978

From Friday to Sunday, heavy and long-lasting freezing rain and a line of severe storms struck the northern Lower Peninsula. Trees weighed down with ice sagged and snapped. Some fell onto power lines while others toppled into roadways, making some routes impassable. Hundreds of power poles broke. The ice remained into Wednesday, bringing down evermore trees, power poles and power lines.

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