See it: Winter weather brings damaging ice storm to parts of northern US

GAYLORD, Mich. – Residents crossed the bluish U.S. person experienced an ongoing winter tempest that has brought destructive crystal to galore Great Lakes and Northeast communities.

Parts of Michigan person had to carnivore the brunt of these conditions done the weekend. Winter weather has made its beingness felt, with slick roads and damaged properties arsenic sleet and freezing rain autumn down hard from the sky.

People successful Michigan person recovered it particularly hard to travel arsenic the metropolis of Gaylord is nether an Ice Storm Warning until precocious Sunday night. Winter upwind conditions person brought snow and crystal to the area, creating slushy and bedewed roadworthy conditions. 

The crystal has created a acquainted country of downed trees arsenic travelers successful Gaylord are halted by a histrion blocking the road.

A video successful Fairview, Michigan, shows branches astatine a cemetery holding connected for beloved beingness earlier breaking and falling harshly. The dense value of the crystal is excessively overmuch for immoderate trees to bear. 

The freezing upwind successful Michigan has caused immoderate histrion branches to frost implicit and interruption owed to the value of the ice.

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With the menace of wintertime upwind continuing into Sunday night, much trees and different structures volition apt crook icy overnight arsenic temperatures dip into the 20s successful parts of the bluish Great Lakes region.

Due to the freezing rain, histrion branches person frozen implicit and breached owed to the value of the ice.

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Unfortunately, the icy upwind has caused harm and wide powerfulness outages passim the region. As of Sunday afternoon, much than 144,000 radical were without powerfulness successful Michigan. 

One homeowner observed the harm to his spot arsenic crystal pellets battered the extortion of a home and partially tore disconnected a operation from the garage. 

The backyard is littered with breached histrion branches and heavy crystal pellets. The National Weather Service announced that radical should see delaying each travel. 

"Travel is highly discouraged owed to slick roadways and the anticipation of downed trees and powerfulness lines," NWS Gaylord issued successful an urgent wintertime upwind message. "Never effort to escaped powerfulness lines oregon region debris yourself. Avoid thing touching the downed lines, including vehicles oregon downed branches."

Sleet and freezing rainfall person weighed down histrion branches and caused them to topple onto powerfulness lines, triggering the wide powerfulness outages being reported successful parts of the region.

People successful Wisconsin are not exempt from the wintertime upwind arsenic they person observed rainfall turning to sleet overnight. 

ICE STORM BRINGS POWER OUTAGES, SLICK TRAVEL FROM NORTHERN GREAT LAKES TO INTERIOR NORTHEAST

Residents of Hayward, Wisconsin, are nether a Winter Storm Warning until Sunday evening. There is simply a accidental for snowfall to autumn overnight arsenic temperatures driblet into the teens. Fortunately, determination are acold less powerfulness outages successful Wisconsin, with astir 62,000 arsenic of Sunday afternoon. Outage numbers volition proceed to steadily driblet arsenic crews enactment astir the timepiece to reconstruct energy to homes.

Cold and wintry conditions are expected to proceed done Sunday nighttime arsenic wintertime upwind alerts proceed successful galore parts of the bluish Great Lakes portion and bluish New England.