Around 300,000 power customers in Ontario, the most populous province in Michigan, Wisconsin and Canada, were out of power early Sunday, bringing freezing rain and sleet to the Great Lakes area.
Ice from tree branches covered by the storm snapped several power lines on Saturday, creating dangerous operating conditions. Michigan's National Weather Service office posted a photo on Wood's social media.
More than a million people in parts of Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Vermont and Wisconsin were warned of an ice storm early Sunday. It was predicted to accumulate in several locations,
Officials urged some residents in southern Michigan to not travel. They also warned drivers to be cautious at the Mackinac Bridge, which connects Michigan's Upper Peninsula to the southern part of the state.
In eastern Canada, Quebec officials warned of ice freezing and up to four-quarters of ice on Sunday, according to the Canadian environmental environment.
The ice storm, meteorologist Harold Dipman, with the Meteorological Bureau in Gaylord, Michigan, said that while the typical thing in the area produces a quarter to a quarter of the ice, so far, there have been reports of half to three-quarters of the accumulation.
The storm has also been going on for longer than usual. The typical one lasts between six and 12 hours, Dipman said, but the storm can start on Saturday evening and continue until Sunday night.
Previous winter conditions struck the area from Friday to Saturday morning.
More than 109,000 customers in Michigan and around 10,000 people in nearby Wisconsin were out of power early Sunday, according to monitoring site Poweroutage.us.
In Ontario, about 179,000 customers were out of power early Sunday, according to Hydro One, the leading power transmission company in Ontario. The outages concentrated in central and eastern Ontario were primarily caused by ice that compressed tree branches, the company said on its website.
Hydro One said Power has already been restored to over 116,000 customers.
