MIDCOAST – Knox andLincoln and Waldo counties are suffering widespread power outages as of 9 p.m., Tuesday, March 14. Firefighters are responding to down wires and trees crossing the roads, while plow crews are clearing the roads of heavy, wet snow. It’s a mess, and the coastal counties are feeling the brunt of the power outages. Knox County had 13,812 customers without power; Lincoln, 10,638; and Waldo, 1,946.

Appleton, Hope and Union are currently being hit the hardest, where all Central Maine Power customers in those three towns are without electricity.

Central Maine Power said at 9 p.m.: “High wind gusts that could exceed 55 mph will continue into the late evening. With weather conditions such as this, we have to consider the safety of our employees and may have to suspend some of the work in bucket trucks due to the severity of the conditions. While we wait for winds to subside, our crews focus on making downed wires safe and removing fallen trees. Our teams will be working through the night and into tomorrow to restore power to all customers impacted by this storm.”

At 8:40 p.m., Central Maine Power listed the following outages in Knox, Lincoln and Waldo counties

Knox County
APPLETON, 778 customers, 778 without power

CAMDEN, 3,798 customers, 941without power

CUSHING, 1,073 customers, 472 without power

FRIENDSHIP, 977 customers, 950 without power

HOPE, 1,055 customers, 1,055 without power

OWLS HEAD, 1,292 customers, 86 without power

ROCKLAND, 4,800 customers, 2,000 without power

ROCKPORT, 2,697 customers, 743 without power

SOUTH THOMASTON, 1,142 customers, 692 without power

ST GEORGE, 2,408 customers, 1,507 without power

THOMASTON, 1,694 customers, 282 without power

UNION, 1,512 customers, 1,512 without power

WARREN, 2,346 customers, 1,895 without power

WASHINGTON, 977 customers, 898 without power

Total, 26,556 customers, 13,812 without power

In Lincoln County, Waldoboro has 3,153 CMP customers. As of 9 p.m., 2779 of them were without electricity.

In Waldo County, the towns of Liberty, Lincolnville, Montville and Palermo are the hardest hit.

In Montville, 437 customers out of 597 are without power; in Lincolnville, 212 out of 1,869; and in Palermo, 194 out of 1,075.