NEXT Weather Alert: As snow winds down, cold temperatures move in next week

Between 9:30 p.m. Friday and 7:30 a.m. Saturday, the Minneapolis State Patrol said there were 63 crashes on state roads. 

Four of the crashes resulted in injury, though none of them were serious or fatal. There were 57 vehicle spin outs and six jackknifed semis.

From 7:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m., the Minnesota State Patrol reported 175 crashes. Of those, 25 involved injury.

One crash was fatal, reported in Sibley County.

There were 335 additional vehicles that spun out or went off the road, along with 33 jackknifed semis.

Officials with St. Paul said that they issued 766 tickets for parking violations during the snow emergency.

From those, the night plow removed 311 vehicles from city streets and took them to be impounded.

"Snow Emergencies last 96 hours in St. Paul," officials reported. "We will be doing our clean phase starting tonight and through 9 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 19. We will still be ticketing and towing cars that have not yet moved."

Throughout the Twin Cities, crews ticketed more than 1,600 cars total, and towed 500.

BRAHAM, Minn. -- About an hour north of the Twin Cities, people continue to be without power. For some, it's been that way for nearly three days. 

"First day was maybe three or four hours of outage. The next day was literally all day," said Christi Brainard. 

And just when Brainard thought the worst was behind her, her power went out again on Friday morning. 

"Our temperature inside our house went down to just under 60 degrees too. So it's starting to get pretty cold," Brainard said. 

She is one of more than 12,000 homeowners in Kanabec County and the surrounding area who've experienced outages. East Central Energy, out of Braham, had that number down to 5,000 Friday morning. 

"Unfortunately those outages are largely individual so they are going to take some time," said Justin Jahnz, of East Central Energy. 

Jahnz said heavy, wet snow is to blame for the outages. It weighs on branches, which in turn break off and fall onto power lines. 

Normally, they'll use 40 linemen after a storm like this but that number has doubled to 80 as they work against the clock to restore power before frigid temperatures arrive. They know they're not out of the woods yet, because the woods are the problem. Linemen have to trudge through deep snow to get to downed lines. 

"The density is an issue up here and when we have outages, all that line creates a lot more work to repair," Jahnz said. 

"It gets a little chilly but we'll get through it," said Tony Anderson.

Anderson lives in the country and he's going out of his way to improvise while he waits for power to be restored. 

"The worst thing is we have to take snow into the house and melt it for water because we have our own well here so when the power goes out we don't have any water," he said. "It's beautiful out here, absolutely gorgeous, but it has downfalls too."

East Central Energy believes they'll likely go into Saturday with their power restoration efforts. 

In some parts of the state it could take longer to restore power, potentially Monday, and linemen from Kansas City will be coming to Minnesota to help.

The city of Minneapolis tells WCCO that there were 890 violation tickets and 166 ticketed vehicles towed during the first day of the snow emergency, which began Thursday night and ended at 8 a.m. Friday. 

WCCO is checking with St. Paul for towing numbers, too. 

At roughly 10:45 a.m., Minnesota Power said roughly 7,400 of their customers are still without power after the winter storm in northern Minnesota.

The roads continue to challenge their efforts, they said.

Thursday evening, the company said 9,500 customers were without power.

With below-freezing temperatures turning slush to ice, road conditions are slick, so stay careful out there. 

On Friday morning, the Minnesota State Patrol reported 72 crashes, 116 spinouts and seven jackknifed semis statewide between 9:30 p.m. Thursday and 7:30 a.m. Friday. 

Heavy snow downed at least 100 power lines up north and crews are working to get the lights back Friday morning.

But Minnesota Power says -- with the tough travel -- that could take another day or two. Around 9,500 customers went to bed without heat last night.

One of the hardest-hit spots is the Nisswa area. The Grand View Lodge says half of the resort is without power, and their main lodge was running on a generator last night.

We're still seeing outages here in the metro, too, affecting a few hundred Xcel Energy customers.

Western Wisconsin doesn't look much better this morning where thousands are affected.

There are many school closings and delays Friday morning following this week's snow. 

Check the latest here.