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Historic ice storm cripples Northern Michigan leaves 90,000 without power.

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A crippling ice storm in Northern Michigan has knocked out power to at least 90,000 residential and business customers forcing residents to bundle up in

their homes without heat and closing many small businesses. As of midday Sunday, half an inch to

three quarters of an inch of ice had accumulated in much of the northeast lower Michigan

and an inch to an inch and a half had accumulated an elmira near

Gaylord usually a quarter inch of ice is when we start to see a lot of impacts from ice storms

and an inch and an inch and a half of ice is very significant bordering on kind of historic said faith frederickson a meteorologist at the national weather service in gailard

virtually all customers of the priscilla is electric and gas co-op and alpina power company were without power Sunday, some for more than 30 hours,

reported about 3,200 electric members and reported about 32,000, 32,000 accounts, 32,000 outages.

Elpina power serves about 16,750 electrical customers covering

250 square miles in the northeastern lower peninsula of Michigan and said 99% of its customers

are without power. The two utilities serve much of Michigan customers are without power.

The two utilities serve much of Michigan's northeast lower peninsula.

Quote, this storm is unlike anything we have experienced.

Prescgyle co-op president and CEO, Alan Berg wrote to customers someday. While we diligently prepare for any weather,

this event is extreme. Some residents of the Galard and Alpina area said they were without heat,

while others were using generators to heat their homes. Residents said that most stores, restaurants are closed and they are passing time with loved ones huddling playing board games and or fashioning different ways to cook it's northern michigan don't bullshit me a lot of people are drinking they're they're hunkered down in their houses and drinking around their wood stoves too is what they're doing waiting waiting for this shit to get out of there

there so that they can get out and get to work um i'm not going to read down the rest of the article

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