Businesses and homes "from Maine to Michigan and into Canada that have been without electricity since last weekend's ice storm... and they may not get their power back for another day," The Associated Press reported.
About 105,000 homes and businesses in Michigan without power early Thursday
90,000 CMS Energy Corp.'s customers were still offline as of late Thursday morning. They also said about 348,00 of them lost power power since the storm hit last Saturday night, The AP also reported.
Lansing Board of Water & Light said Thursday the capital city in Michigan's power system has about 4,400 customers offline out of 35,000 affected.
Central Maine Power, with more than 24,000 customers remained in the dark early Thursday. More than 100,000 were without power at the storm's peak, according to news reports.
About 160,000 customers in Canada were without power Wednesday, The AP also reported. There were "72,000 customers without power in Toronto, down from 300,000 at the height of the outages," The AP reported.
Mayor Rob Ford said some may not have power restored until the weekend.
Authorities blame the storm for 27 deaths, with 17 in the U.S. and 10 in Canada. Five apparently died from carbon monoxide poisoning, according to The AP.
"We've had two beautiful, sunny days in Maine and the ice isn't going anyplace," said Lynette Miller, spokeswoman for the Maine Emergency Management Agency. "
They're very concerned about more weight coming down on trees that are already compromised by ice."
