KITTERY (AP) – Utility crews worked Saturday to restore electricity for the remaining handful of customers who lost their power in a wind storm that swept across the state from Kittery to Caribou.
About 700 Central Maine Power customers were without electricity Saturday morning, but electricity was expected to be restored for all of them by the evening, according to a CMP spokesman in Augusta.
Most of the power outages were in York County, which bore the brunt of Friday’s blustery weather.
In Sanford, a woman driving down Oak Street was stopped short when a tree fell on the front of her car. She was uninjured. In Westbrook, in Cumberland County, a toppled tree closed down Route 302 for part of Friday.
The biggest wind gust was 62 mph in Cape Elizabeth but the wind created headaches just about everywhere.
To the north, the bigger problem was snow and slippery roads that sent cars and trucks sliding.
Caribou recorded 9.7 inches of snow and Grand Isle had 13, Alex Calderon of the National Weather Service said Saturday.
There was enough early notice of Friday’s storm for crews to get the plows installed on their trucks, Calderon said.
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