PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - Utility crews in Maine spent Saturday attending to power outages caused by a Christmas storm that didn’t cause as much disruption as had been feared.
In New Hampshire, the largest utility was responding to outages affecting fewer than 60 homes and businesses as of Saturday morning.
Forecasts called for heavy wind and rain, which arrived on Friday. However, the storm failed to match the havoc caused by previous storms this year that knocked power out for tens of thousands of people.
Central Maine Power, Maine’s largest power company, said Saturday morning that less than a thousand people remained without power. Most of those were in Waldo County. Cumberland County, the largest in the state, had less than 100 outages. By 4 p.m., power was rested to all but a handful of customers in the state.
Forecasts called for calmer weather on Saturday and Sunday in Maine and coastal New Hampshire.
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