AUGUSTA (AP) – Central Maine Power said its crews who’ve been working around the clock for more than 48 hours expected to have electricity restored for all customers by late Friday.
Utility crews who’ve been working since Wednesday had winnowed the number of homes and businesses without electricity to just 2,700, mostly in the Brunswick, Rockland and Belfast areas, as of 3 p.m.
About 110 line crews including 25 from New Brunswick, along with 48 tree-cutting crews, were making strides, said CMP spokeswoman Gail Rice.
“They’re quite optimistic they’ll have (the customers) back by midnight,” Rice said late Friday afternoon.
The storm that brought wind gusts of more than 60 mph knocked out power to roughly 20 percent of the state’s residents on Wednesday. Many of those people spent two nights without electricity.
The wind storm caused the most severe damage seen since the ice storms of 1998 in Maine, Rice said.
During the ice storm, more than 600,000 residents lost their electricity. It took more than two weeks, and the efforts of repair crews from across the Northeast, to fully restore power service.
As for the latest storm, people whose power has not been restored by 11 p.m. Friday were encouraged to notify CMP at (800) 696-1000, Rice said.
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