Linemen from Massachusetts restore guidewires to utility poles along Port Road in Kennebunk on Friday. The line in the foreground is a guidewire, which helps the pole stay up. Gregory Rec/Staff Photographer
Nearly 6,000 households remain without power after last week’s two-day nor’easter, with restoration efforts possibly stretching into Tuesday, according to Central Maine Power.
On Sunday night, 13,029 CMP customers in 10 of Maine’s 16 counties still had not regained power, but the utility’s website noted that power had been restored to 98% of their customers.
By Monday afternoon, the number of customers in the dark had dropped to 5,950.
York County showed the most outages remaining, with 2,971 customers still affected, followed by Oxford and Cumberland counties, with 1,364 and 1,274, respectively.
All other counties had fewer than 150 outages remaining. Knox County had 103 customers still affected, according to CMP.
The CMP website notes that the company had 1,100 line crews aided by almost 600 tree crews working Sunday to restore power, and will continue working “around the clock” until all customers are turned back on. They expected that outages in the Greater Portland area, eastern Cumberland County and Augusta area would be repaired Sunday.
Source: Central Maine Power
Outages in the Greater Lewiston-Auburn and Greater Brunswick areas will likely have power restored by at least Monday, CMP said, while customers in York County, Southern Oxford County and Western Cumberland County will have power by at least Tuesday. Some customers who need their own service lines repaired may take longer than the company’s estimated restoration times.
The company said they’ve restored power to more than 350,000 customers since the storm. Versant Power, which had 16,000 customers lose power last Thursday, reported no storm-related outages as of Sunday.
According to Kennebec Light and Power District’s website, all their customers had power restored by late Saturday morning.
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