BANGOR — Officials with Maine’s electric utilities say it likely will be two weeks to a month before they get an accurate estimate of the costs associated with the year-end ice storm. The storm knocked out power to tens of thousands of Mainers, and Emera Maine, formerly Bangor Hydro Electric Co., and Central Maine Power, […]
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Penobscot Narrows Bridge reopens after falling ice hits cars
VERONA ISLAND (AP) — The Penobscot Narrows Bridge has reopened to traffic a day after it was closed when large chunks of ice fell off the cables and damaged cars. The bridge that carries U.S. Route 1 over the Penobscot River and connects Verona Island to Prospect reopened Monday night after some ice was removed […]
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Falling ice closes Penobscot Narrows Bridge
The bridge was closed on Sunday after five or six cars were damaged by ice falling on to the roadway. It will remain closed until further notice, Talbot said. Talbot added that the Maine Department of Transportation will consult with its chief engineers to figure out what might be done proactively to remove the remaining […]
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Snow, cold may hamper power efforts in Maine
LITCHFIELD — Snow was falling Thursday morning in places still hustling to get power back on after a weekend ice storm that turned out the lights from Michigan to Maine and into Canada. Southeast and parts of interior Maine that have been without electricity since Sunday were anticipating from 3 to 7 inches of snow […]
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After ice, snow expected
MORE COVERAGE: Snow, cold may hamper power efforts in Maine As of Christmas night, Central Maine Power reported 39,000 households were without power after losing electricity on Monday from a multiple-day ice storm. “Crews will keep working tonight. There’ll be an enormous push tomorrow,” CMP spokesman John Carroll said Wednesday night. “By the end of the […]
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CMP customers dealing with new power outages Monday
MORE COVERAGE: Day 2 of ice storm hits Maine LEWISTON — Hundreds of power outages Monday morning turned into tens of thousands by afternoon and by late night, about 100,000 Maine customers lacked electricity. Central Maine Power and Bangor Hydro workers were busy around the state. On Monday morning, Central Maine Power reported only 500 power […]
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Day 2 of ice storm hits Maine
Broken pole in Centerville, near Jonesboro in Washington county. This is what our line crews have been working on. pic.twitter.com/AyFSJwbceT — Bangor Hydro/MPS (@bangorhydro_mps) December 23, 2013 UPDATED 3:55 PM: GRAY — The National Weather Service has extended its ice storm warning until 7 p.m. for Androscoggin, Cumberland, Franklin, Oxford and Somerset counties. UPDATED 3:49 […]
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Ice storm expected to continue Monday
It’s not the big ice storm of 1998 that crippled much of the state, but the National Weather Service considers the storm that hit over the weekend “a long-duration event” that will cause icing into Monday. Although this particular storm didn’t pack the same punch as ’98, Marine said, “any ice storm is bad,” and […]