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,

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.

Tornadoes and violent winds flattened homes and ripped apart buildings from Oklahoma to Indiana in the first round of lingering storms that are expected to bring record-setting rains and life-threatening flash floods across the nation’s midsection in the coming days.