A motorist traveling North on the Sawyer Road in Greene finds the road closed due to storm damage on Tuesday morning. Roads throughout the area including the North end of Upper Street in Turner and the North end of Hotel Road in Auburn still closed due to damage sustained during Sunday night’s storm. (Daryn Slover/Sun […]
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Drought may have contributed to storm damage
PORTLAND (AP) — Drought conditions, recent rainfall and an unusual storm path in Maine may have contributed to the large numbers of trees that toppled during a storm that walloped the Northeast this week, officials said. The storm cut power to nearly 1.5 million homes and businesses in the region at its peak. It left more […]
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Power outages from ‘super storm’ historic
A lineman works to restore power on East Avenue in Lewiston on Monday. Linemen are working 17 hours on, seven hours off, CMP spokeswoman Gail Rice said. Monday’s storm inflicted more power outages than the ice storm of 1998. (Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal) Monday’s pre-Halloween storm was historic in the number of power outages it inflicted. […]
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Those without power making the best of the situation
GREENE — As did many rural towns, Greene got hit with an extra punch by the pre-Halloween storm Monday. More than half of the Central Maine Power customers in town — 1,397 of 2,131 – didn’t have power Tuesday. And that was an improvement over Monday. “Supposedly, yesterday there were 42 people in the town who […]
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CMP advises caution in using generators
Aaron Berg fills up a gas can and his portable generator Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017, in Houston as Hurricane Harvey intensified in the Gulf of Mexico. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) With below-freezing temperatures in some parts of Maine on Tuesday night, Central Maine Power is urging customers without power to be careful with generators and […]