‘Frustrating and upsetting’: Residents in Michigan endure fifth day without power

When Anna Capling, a labor and delivery nurse in Livonia, Michigan, heard from family members Wednesday that their lights were flickering amid an impending ice storm, she stood up to charge her phone just in case the power went out.

Then she heard a loud boom, and everything went dark. Days later, she still has no power.

“It’s just frustrating,” Capling said. “It almost feels a little depressing because you just have no idea when it’s coming back on.”

Capling was one of hundreds of thousands of customers in southern Michigan still scrambling to stay warm Saturday as power failures plagued the region, days after a winter storm that led to at least one death.