Lee knocks out power for thousands of Mainers
Thousands of Maine households lost power Saturday morning as wind speeds from post-tropical cyclone Lee as wind gusts topped 40 mph on parts of the coast.
The National Hurricane Center downgraded Lee to a post-tropical cyclone, but a tropical storm warning remains in effect for all of Maine’s coast and a large swath of the interior. The strongest winds will be in the midcast and Down East, where gusts will likely exceed 60 mph at times.
Hancock County had the most outages at around 10:30 a.m. with more than 12,000 households without power between Versant Power and Central Maine Power, followed by Knox with 6,911, Washington with 6,844, Waldo with 5,130, Cumberland with 4,546, Penobscot with 4,459, Androscoggin with 3,563, Lincoln with 3,536 and Sagadahoc with 2,440.
The Canadian Maritimes has been hit harder by outages with 128,935 Nova Scotia Power customers without power and 37,124 NB Power customers in New Brunswick in the dark around 10:30 a.m. The storm is predicted to make landfall in Nova Scotia later Saturday.