Police, fire and power workers were sent scrambling early Tuesday as a late-winter storm moved across the area.

Police said most of the trouble came in the form of downed trees and power lines as rain and high winds swept through. The predictable outcome was power outages just about everywhere.

Central Maine Power said Tuesday afternoon that crews will be working through the night to restore power to remaining customers who lost power during the wind and rainstorm.

“By 5 p.m., the company had restored 41,797 or 90% of all outages and estimates the vast majority will be restored tonight with some areas in the Brunswick-Wiscasset area to be restored by noon Wednesday,” according to a news release.

In addition to 200 CMP line workers, the company has 224 line contractors and 105 tree crews on the system, according to the release. Crews will be out into Wednesday morning to restore remaining customers. 

“Our crews made great progress restoring power in the weather today,” Adam Desrosiers, vice president Electric Operations for CMP, said. “We experienced system damage from a lot of downed trees and wires and appreciate that our crews are working safely in local communities. They will be out until every customer has been restored.”

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