This is easily the worst ice storm in modern times — in the last 50 years — and you have to go back all the way to 1922 to find something even remotely close,” said Harold Dippman, meteorologist with the National Weather Service office in Gaylord.

A long stretch of days without power, internet access and in some cases, fuel, could be coming to an end for northern Michigan residents. Governor Gretchen Whitmer deployed the Michigan National Guard to assist ice storm recovery efforts as northern Michigan attempts to overcome the powerful storm that swept across the state on March 30.