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.

It is another day without electricity for much of the northern tip of Michigan's Lower Peninsula. Utility crews are trying to restore power in a region that was hit by freezing rain last weekend.