Christmas Day wind and rain storm brings little to no damage
Emergency management officials in Cumberland and York counties say they didn t receive any reports of flooding or storm-related damage Saturday.
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A Christmas Day wind and rain storm brought minimal if any damage to most parts of Maine, with almost all power outages across the state restored by Saturday evening and only minor reports of flooding.
As of 6:54 p.m. there was only one Central Maine Power customer without electricity. Versant Power, which serves customers in northern and eastern Maine, was reporting 338 outages, including 97 in Deer Isle.
The Christmas Day storm was forecast to bring gusty winds of up to 60 mph and a high risk of electricity outages. While many parts of the state saw 1 to 2 inches of rain, the extreme winds didn’t materialize and topped out at gusts of 40 to 50 mph. The National Weather Service in Gray was predicting that warm temperatures could create snow melt that would combine wi