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.

Residents of a rural northern Michigan community were isolated by an ice storm, but banded together to help each other with cooking and cleaning up.

As crews and community members continue to clean up the destruction caused by the recent historic ice storm in Northern Michigan, a lawmaker is seeking presidential attention. In a letter sent to Trump Wednesday,