In the aftermath of Thursday’s snowstorm, more than 2,000 homes and businesses across the region were still without electricity into Friday night.

Central Maine Power spokeswoman Gail Rice said the Farmington and Bridgton districts, which include the Rumford area as well as Norway and Paris, had the most outages.

By 9 p.m., all CMP customers in Androscoggin County residents had their power back on but problems lingered elsewhere. Late Friday night, 2,300 homes and businesses were still dark in the Bridgton area and 300 were without power in Farmington.

Outages in the Bridgton area peaked at 6,700 at 8 a.m. Friday.

Rice said heavy, wet snow weighed down power lines, causing them to break.

The Thursday storm caused a total of 16,300 outages throughout the CMP service area, compared with 117,000 that occurred during last week’s storm.

During that storm, more highly populated areas in Southern Maine and along the coast were affected, while this week’s storm primarily hit the central and western regions.

Rice said crews are working around the clock in Franklin and Oxford counties. Last week’s storm also used out-of-state utility companies to bring the power back on. Not this time, said Rice, although some local contractors are working to restore power.

The utility is preparing for another storm that is forecast to begin late Sunday and reach into Monday, Rice said.

“We’re watching the weather system very carefully,” she said.

She said the winter was quiet with relatively few power outages – until April.