Thousands of people are without power Sunday morning after ice and snow from a major storm brought down trees and powerlines overnight.
The damage is primarily in Maine’s southern counties. Central Maine Power had 188,106 households without power, including nearly half of Cumberland County at 88,644 and more than a third of York at 47,073. Sagadahoc had 15,771 and Lincoln had 13,378 as of 8 a.m. Sunday.
Nearly half of Waldo County, 12,817, awoke to no power as well. Knox County had 5,400 and Hancock had 4,572 reported outages.
CMP’s outages represent nearly a quarter of its customers.
Versant’s territory was not hit as hard, with only 15,600 customers of its 166,195 total without power Sunday. Most of the outages were the 13,672 in Hancock County that Versant reported at 7 a.m. There were 1,852 in Penobscot and 311 in Washington as well.
Many roads are still covered with snow and ice, and secondary roads could have downed trees and wires. Authorities were advising people to be careful if they had to go out.