Hurricane Sandy round-up

It’s hard to believe after a window-rattling night that Maine has only suffered power outages from the Frankenstorm known as Hurricane Sandy. Even though thousands are out of power, I say “only” because it could have been much worse for Maine. Scanning CNN, the destruction to hit the east coast, most notably the New Jersey shores and New York City, has been described as “unthinkable devastation.”

This morning, with CNN reporting Mayor Bloomberg calling it New York’s “Worst Storm Ever”…

After having recovered one of the two lost sailors from the HMS Bounty, the U.S. Coast Guard Fifth District continues to search for Captain Robin Walbridge.

Walbridge, 63, and Claudene Christian, 42, were separated from their crew early Monday, Oct. 29 approximately 90 miles southeast from Hatteras, N.C.. The crew was forced to abandon the Bounty after the 80-foot craft began…

Residents Monday night went to bed to the sound of wind howling like a moving freight train and woke up around 7 a.m. to a quick-moving downpour with lightning and thunder. Throughout the night into the early morning hours Tuesday, fire departments across Knox and Waldo counties were called out to trees and lines down, but there were no reports of flooding or water damage.

The National Weather Service dropped the coastal flood and high wind warnings for Maine around 3:40 a.m. The…

Trees just keep going down, and as the night goes on, area firefighters and public works crews continue to respond to incidents that involve trees falling on wires, or in roadways. It has been that way since late this afternoon; in some cases, power was cut and then restored, in other cases, the power remains out.

On the Mountain Road in Warren, a tree took down a wire, which cut electricity to area residences. In Camden, a tree falling onto a wire on Melvin Heights Road cut power to a…

UPDATE: Following an early-morning distress call, the HMS Bounty has sunk off the coast of North Carolina.

The replica ship had lost communications early Monday, Oct. 29, about 90 miles southeast of Hatteras, N.C.

The search for two members of the 16-person crew continues, with 14 other members of the crew having already been lifted from two rescue boats. None of the rescued members of the Bounty's crew suffered life-threatening injuries…

Ken McKinley operates Locus Weather in Camden. We asked Ken this morning to give us his interpretation of how events of Hurricane Sandy affects the Midcoast.

“People are so focused on the center of the storm," he said. "The center of the storm will not reach the Midcoast, but its circulation is huge and extends to a very large area. The strongest winds reach…

With the approach of Tropical Storm Sandy, which is expected to arrive Monday afternoon, Rockland is closing the Marie H. Reed Breakwater Park at the end of Samoset Road and the Rockland Breakwater, to foot traffic and vehicle traffic. The closure is immediate.

Wave action during and after a storm is highly unpredictable and creates dangerous situations. In 2009, a rogue wave caused by an offshore tropical storm swent people from the rocks at Acadia National Park into the ocean,…

Weather update, Oct. 29: A high wind warning is in effect this afternoon through Tuesday morning. Though Sandy will make landfall hundreds of miles to the south, an expansive wind field is expected to spread strong winds across New Hampshire and western Maine beginning Monday afternoon, according to the National Weather Service. The window for the strongest winds will be late…

AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage Friday signed a limited emergency declaration, which will allow power crews from other states and/or Canada to help Maine prepare for Hurricane Sandy. The declaration will help Maine power providers pre-place their crews by extending the hours their crews can drive.

The declaration was issued in advance of the hurricane, currently off the east coast of Florida, in order to expedite power restoration for thousands of Maine households could potentially be…