AUBURN – By midweek, Maine’s St. Patrick’s Day storm should be a sodden, icy memory – all 11 inches of it.

“We’ll be back up to 40 degrees by Wednesday or so,” said National Weather Service Meteorologist James Brown. “We’re done accumulating any snow for the meantime. Now things will start slowly warming up.”

The storm swept through Maine on Friday night, dumping 11 inches of sleety snow on the Twin Cities by 2 p.m. Saturday. Lisbon Falls had accumulated 10 inches, Eustis a foot and Hiram 13 inches.

Overall, about what you’d expect from a March storm.

“It’s pretty normal for this time of year in Maine,” Brown said.

Police reported a handful of rear-end collisions and fender-benders because of the storm. Lewiston Sgt. Jeff Parshall said one car knocked over a Crowley Road telephone pole about 10 p.m., knocking out telephone and electrical service to dozens of neighbors. Crews had repaired the line by Saturday morning.

It was the storm’s effects outside of Maine that doomed a Saturday afternoon conference at Bates College. Mbali Ndlovu of Amandla, a Bates African-American organization, said their annual Unity Conference will be postponed until later in the year.

The conference had intended to bring three out-of-state professors to Bates to discuss race, politics and gender issues, and American culture.

“But none of them could get in because their flights were canceled,” Ndlovu said. That also ended plans for a Unity Conference dinner Saturday night.

The weather couldn’t stop the group’s annual Triad dance, however.

“Everyone coming to that lives on campus,” she said.