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Christmas storm doesn’t cause as much damage as initially feared

Christmas storm doesn’t cause as much damage as initially feared

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Utility crews in Maine spent the morning attending to power outages caused by a Christmas storm that didn’t cause as much disruption as had been feared.

Central Maine Power, Maine’s largest power company, said Saturday 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.

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 rained, 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.

Forecasts call for calmer weather this weekend in Maine.

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