Monday’s President’s Day snowstorm created anything but a holiday on the roads for police across western and southern Maine.
Many of the accidents were minor with just property damage, said dispatchers in Franklin and Oxford counties.
A Maine State Police dispatcher in Gray said things were hopping all day with troopers sent to numerous slide-offs on roads in southern Maine.
By 5:45 p.m., officials were still trying to right a tractor-trailer truck, the dispatcher said, that overturned Monday morning on the southbound lane of I-295 in Yarmouth.
The wreck caused that section of the interstate to be shut down from Portland to Yarmouth. There were several accidents on I-95 as well, the dispatcher said.
Farther inland, road crews were busy trying to keep up with snowfall, and wild turkeys in Mexico were just trying to cross Route 17, single file and fluttering, near the Roxbury town line. The large birds didn’t seem to mind the snowstorm or the snowbanks one bit.
In Newry, the day’s fluffy powder was icing on the cake for Sunday River Ski Area.
“Today taps off a pretty busy weekend,” said Sunday River spokeswoman Susan DuPlessis early Monday evening.
At South Ridge, cars, she said, were parked all the way down to lots farthest away.
Monday’s 6 inches gave the resort a total of 48 inches of snow for the month of February, so far, DuPlessis said.
She was expecting another 5 to 12 inches overnight.
According to the National Weather Service in Gray, a snow advisory remained in effect until midnight Tuesday.
Another light storm was forecast for Tuesday into Wednesday.
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