DTE Energy reported 34,988 power outages; Consumers Energy, 190,508; Presque Isle Electric & Gas Co-op, 32,071; Alpena Power, 16,447; and Great Lakes Energy, which serves western northern Michigan from the tip of the state to Holland, reported 45.257 outages.

Gaylord got 199 inches (5 meters) of snow this winter — but this wave is much different. “It's an ice situation. The trees and power lines are loaded, literally,” Charlevoix County Sheriff Chuck Vondra said.