Nearly 12,000 electric customers in Maine are without power because of a winter storm moving across northern New England. Bangor Hydro Electric was reporting almost 7,000 outages Thursday morning, the vast majority in Penobscot County. Central Maine Power Co. was reporting about 4,800 customers without power. Oxford and Somerset counties were the hardest hit. Bangor Hydro says strong winds and the heavy, wet snow weighing on power lines and branches is responsible. The storm that could drop two feet of snow in some areas of Maine has prompted Gov. Paul LePage to order all state offices to open two hours later than normal, except in Aroostook County, where state offices will remain closed all day. The maximum speed on the Maine Turnpike has been lowered to 45 miles per hour.
Posted on: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 19:10:34 +0000