Thousands of Maine households lost power Saturday as storm Lee brought hurricane-force wind and heavy rain along its northward path.
The National Hurricane Center downgraded Hurricane Lee to a post-tropical cyclone early Saturday, but a tropical storm warning was still in effect for all of Maine’s coast and a large swath of the interior on Saturday. The strongest winds were expected to be in the midcast and Down East, where gusts were predicted to exceed 60 mph at times.
More than 90,000 households across Maine had lost power at the peak Saturday afternoon.
By 7:15 p.m., outages had dropped to around 66,000, according to outage maps from Versant Power and Central Maine Power.
The Canadian Maritimes has been hit harder by outages with peaks of around 146,000 for Nova Scotia Power customers 47,000 for NB Power customers in New Brunswick.