More than 2,300 crew members are working to restore power across the state after the rain and wind storm that knocked out electricity to more than 400,000 Central Maine Power customers Monday. That number was down to 100,000 Thursday night, with estimates to have nearly all power restored by the end of Saturday. Androscoggin County […]
oct 30 storm
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About 140,000 customers waiting for electricity to come back on
PORTLAND (AP) — Hundreds of out-of-state utility crews were in Maine on Thursday to help the state recover from a strong storm that left about 1.5 million Northeast homes and businesses without power. Maine was one of the hardest hit states with nearly 500,000 customers in the dark at one point on Monday. Utility companies […]
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Maine still plagued with outages days after storm
Three days after wind and rain rattled the state, more than 100,000 households were still without power Wednesday, just in time for cold weather to hit. More than half of Central Maine Power customers’ service had been restored, but plenty of people remained in the dark looking for ways to stay warm and fed. According […]
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Durham Get and Go helps cashless customers with IOU board
Durham Get and Go employee Shannon Emerson works on the IOU board the store instituted when power outages made credit and debit card purchases impossible. (Andree Kehn/Sun Journal) DURHAM — In a town where most CMP customers are without power, a convenience store running on generator power has instituted a policy of covering cashless customers’ […]
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Town-by-town storm status
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 […]
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CMP expects to restore power to most customers by Saturday night
Sara Burns: We expect to complete restoration to the vast majority of customers by Saturday night. — Central Maine Power (@cmpco) October 31, 2017 Work to restore electricity to more than 400,000 Maine homes and businesses continues a day after a powerful storm knocked out power to a record number of people across the state. […]