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Carl (carma48) posted an update Saturday, Dec 24, 2022, 11:22am EST, 1 year, 4 months ago
Mahnin'All: A VERY wild ride here yesterday & the after effects are still ongoing. We were on "jenny" power again for 7 hours yesterday, but we have our regular power back now. We feel very blessed to have it. There are still 172,000 homes in Maine with no power! At the height of it there were over 230,000 homes in the dark. They are working feverishly to restore power, but a lot of folks are going to spend Christmas without it. The winds gusting yesterday to 69 mph did a lot of damage to the power grids.
The other issue was the flooding caused by roughly 4" of rain on top of over 2 feet of snowpack. Four major roads in this area, including U.S. Rt. 2 are closed: Flooded, then totally frozen & now impassable. In effect, you cannot get to Rumford from here nor can you get anywhere to the south towards Auburn or Portland. Road closures everywhere. Fortunately, we don't have to go anywhere. We won't be seeing Marley & Emma on Christmas day. They are going to wait & try to come home for a couple days sometime next week & we'll all get together then.