LEWISTON — A wind and rain storm that swept across the state Sunday night and Monday morning snapped an estimated 100 utility poles, downed trees and wires, closed roads and damaged buildings.

At the peak of the storm, about 61,445 homes and businesses were without power. By 10 p.m. Monday, about 15,460 were still in the dark, according to Central Maine Power Co. spokesman Gail Rice. About half of those were in Cumberland County; an estimated 2,054 were in Androscoggin County.

At 8 p.m. Monday, CMP listed 87 communities as likely to “be without service through the night and into Tuesday.” The list included Auburn, Lewiston, New Gloucester, Mechanic Falls, Norway, Poland and Sabattus. CMP expected to have power returned to all affected customers in Waldo and Franklin counties by Monday night, while customers in Kennebec County could expect to have their service returned by early Tuesday, and customers in “harder hit sections” of Cumberland, Androscoggin and Oxford counties could expect a return of service by late Tuesday, the company said in the statement.

By 9 p.m. Monday night, crews had found around 100 broken utility polls. “Everyone should stay clear of any downed power lines,” Rice said in a statement. “These should all be considered live and dangerous.”

According to Mike Ekster of the National Weather Service’s Portland office, Cumberland County and the southern coastal area received the most precipitation and highest wind gusts. Wind gusts in Portland reached 63 miles per hour, while those in Lewiston were up to 50 miles per hour.

“There could be a couple more downpours,” Ekster said Monday evening, “but the precipitation has mostly moved off to northern New Hampshire and Vermont.”

Lynette Miller, of the Maine Emergency Management Agency, said much of the cleanup effort had already been completed as of 5 p.m. Monday. “We had a lot of road closures, particularly in Cumberland County,” she said. “Hopefully all of those will be cleared up by Tuesday.”

The agency had yet to estimate the cost of the damage caused by the storm, as of Monday night, Miller said.

Guy Boisse, whose house in Lewiston was grazed by a falling spruce tree early Monday morning, said he was waiting for the city’s Public Works Department to inspect the damage to his property.

“Around 2 in the morning,” he said, “I heard a loud noise that woke up my wife and I.” In the morning, he said, “it looked like a jungle” outside his first-floor window. The spruce tree missed the house by a few inches, he said, and did minimal damage to his porch and truck, which were both struck by smaller branches. The tree also brought down a lamp pole in the front yard, which disrupted power to his home.

Angela Burke of New Gloucester was asleep early Monday morning when a large pine tree crashed through the trailer she was renting. The tree was around 100 feet tall and roughly 3 feet in diameter, according to Chuck Estes, who owned the trailer. “It practically broke the trailer in half,” he said. “It crashed through the roof, buckled the frame and fell all the way to the floor.”

Burke’s infant son, Mason, was also in the trailer. “The tree landed right between them,” just missing both of their beds, according to Estes. Neither was injured.

The storm knocked out power to the Poland and Mechanic Falls town offices, which were closed Monday. Central Maine Community College in Auburn was also closed.

The storm, which moved inland from the coast, did the most damage in Cumberland County and the southern coastal region. The National Weather Service reported that 3½ inches of rain had fallen on Rockland by 7 a.m. Monday, compared to roughly three-quarters of an inch in Auburn at that time.

CMP was aided in their repair efforts by crew from New York State Electric and Gas Corp., a subsidiary of Iberdrola USA, which also owns CMP, according to Rice.

Gov. John Baldacci had previously issued an emergency declaration, which relaxed work time restrictions, allowing the crews to travel to Maine and aid in the clean up. “That declaration helped to grease the skids,” Rice said, since CMP was planning to “have crews working throughout the night on restoration.”