AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine utility officials say they’ve trimmed the number of power outages to fewer than 45,000, and hope to get all customers who lost service back up by Thursday night.

Central Maine Power Co. spokesman John Carroll said Wednesday that most of the remaining outages are in the far southern counties, York and Cumberland. About 280,000 CMP customers had lost electrical service at one time or another due to the weekend storm.

Farther north and east, Bangor Hydro-Electric Co. says power’s been restored to virtually everybody who lost it during the storm. There are still some outages but it’s not clear how many are storm-related.

In the meantime, Bangor Hydro’s sent backup repair crews south to help CMP crews.