A December storm packing powerful wind gusts led to hundreds of thousands of power outages in Maine on Monday.
On the WGAN Morning News Tuesday, Central Maine Power spokesman Jon Breed said that roughly 397,000 customers in their service area were affected by the storm.
As of 7 p.m. Tuesday, CMP’s website was reporting about 246,000 outages.
The storm is also being blamed for the deaths of two men from Maine.
Police say a Windham man died when he was struck by a piece of a tree as he tried to clear debris off his roof.
In Fairfield, a man was killed when he was struck by a fallen tree that he was attempting to remove with a tractor.
In addition to downed trees and powerlines, the storm caused flooding in many areas.
According to a social media post during the storm from the Franklin County Emergency Management Agency, public safety officials told them that Farmington was “essentially completely flooded and isolated.”
