Blizzard

WCMU's Emma George-Griffin speaks with Tina Sawyer about her day on the ground in Roscommon County, one of the most impacted areas of the devastating ice storm that crushed the region this week.

An ice storm followed by blizzard conditions coated trees and powerlines with ice leaving more than 100,000 northern Michigan residents without power.

People detained at the Wayne County Jail say one of the buildings had issues with heating last weekend. Sources detained in the jail say temperatures began to drop on Friday and the Division 2 jail building stayed cold through Monday.

“Three inches at rush hour is a major impact.”A challenging snowfall rate, but as Jerry Byrne, Deputy managing Director of Operations for the Kent County Road Commission explains, blizzard conditions present another set of problems including its timing.

A blizzard in the Upper Peninsula has closed schools and roads and caused power outages to thousands of customers.The National Weather Service says a foot…