plus 4% in Lincoln County’s Waldoboro

Morning update: 42% powerless in Waldo County, 15% powerless in Knox County

Sun, 04/12/2020 - 9:30am

    Though many area residents have had their power restored, there are still an abundance in the Midcoast, and statewide, without power as of this morning, April 12. 

    Rockport firefighters were out throughout Thursday night cutting up downed trees along Route 17 and tending to downed wires along Main Street.

    The trouble started around 6 p.m. Thursday evening with a line of cars on one highway unable to get up a hill.

    More than 33,000 outages were initially reported in our coverage area including Knox and Waldo counties, as well as Waldoboro in Lincoln County. 

    Statewide, more than 200,000 CMP customers were without at the outset of the outages. 

    Below is an updated table, from 9:25 a.m., of the number of power outages CMP is reporting in Knox and Waldo counties. 

    Waldoboro, the lone Lincoln County town in our coverage area, has 118 outages of 3,070 total customers. 

    As the storm recovery unfolds, check back with penbaypilot.com for more information. 

     

    KNOX COUNTY

    Municipality Customers Without Power
    APPLETON 751 404
    CAMDEN 3,798 1,010
    CUSHING 1,023 59
    FRIENDSHIP 965 3
    HOPE 1,027 622
    ROCKLAND 4,727 36
    ROCKPORT 2,584 645
    SOUTH THOMASTON 1,103 1
    ST GEORGE 2,355 9
    THOMASTON 1,685 24
    UNION 1,466 356
    WARREN 2,265 178
    WASHINGTON 947 516
    Total 25,968 3,863

     

    WALDO COUNTY

    Municipality Customers Without Power
    BELFAST 4,600 1,057
    BELMONT 522 522
    BROOKS 632 370
    BURNHAM 762 721
    FRANKFORT 736 266
    FREEDOM 390 359
    JACKSON 297 297
    KNOX 416 165
    LIBERTY 808 467
    LINCOLNVILLE 1,792 508
    MONROE 561 327
    MONTVILLE 603 581
    MORRILL 469 469
    NORTHPORT 1,343 47
    PALERMO 1,028 206
    PROSPECT 384 76
    SEARSMONT 871 848
    SEARSPORT 1,817 530
    STOCKTON SPRINGS 1,124 277
    SWANVILLE 919 483
    THORNDIKE 413 186
    TROY 536 425
    UNITY 1,136 486
    WALDO 418 415
    WINTERPORT 1,546 515
    Total 25,117 10,603