Ice storm paralyzes Northern Michigan. Here are some photos

• A meteorologist on the Nationwide Climate Service mentioned that this was the worst ice storm within the space within the final 50 years.
• Michiganders went to social media to share images and movies of the aftermath.

Statewide Icing Information are nonetheless being assessed after a devastating IJsstorm Noord -Michigan has hit from Friday night to Monday morning.

“That is simply the worst ice storm in fashionable occasions – up to now 50 years – and you must go all the best way again to 1922 to seek out one thing that’s even shut by,” Harold Dippman, meteorologist on the Nationwide Climate Service Workplace in Gaylord, told the Petoskey News Review.

“It’s a era kind; one folks will speak about the remainder of their lives.”

Some Michiganders who’re presently surrounded by frozen bushes and electrical energy traces turned to social media platforms to share images of the affect.

Here’s a take a look at what folks have shared on-line:

Jalen Williams is a trending reporter on the Detroit Free Press. Please contact him through jawilliams1@freepress.com.