With thousands of Michigan residents still without power after an ice storm hit portions of Northern Michigan earlier this week, more potential severe weather is on the way. West Michigan is expected to get hit with a mix of snow and freezing rain,

Severe weather is expected to impact Michigan on Wednesday, bringing the threat of damaging winds, flooding, and isolated tornadoes to different areas of the state.

The National Weather Service warned on Thursday of "generational" floods in the southern and Midwestern United States, as storms ripped across a swath of the country from Texas to Michigan, flinging down hail and whipping up tornadoes.

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.

A long stretch of days without power, internet access and in some cases, fuel, could be coming to an end for northern Michigan residents. Governor Gretchen Whitmer deployed the Michigan National Guard to assist ice storm recovery efforts as northern Michigan attempts to overcome the powerful storm that swept across the state on March 30.

Progress was being made mid-week in returning power to thousands across Northern Michigan. Meanwhile, the Michigan National Guard has been deployed to help with recovery efforts.