Down East Slammed with Outages Storm's High Winds, Rain Knock Out Power Statewide

Bangor Daily News › June 18, 2007

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BANGOR - A storm that brought strong winds, thunder, lightning and heavy rain to Maine on Sunday left thousands of Mainers without electrical service.

The afternoon storm brought trees and limbs in contact with power lines, causing power outages and other problems that kept police, firefighters and utility workers busy for several hours.

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Down East Slammed with Outages Storm's High Winds, Rain Knock Out Power Statewide

A damaged transmission line running from the Veazie substation into Washington County left about 15,000 Bangor Hydro-Electric Co. customers - more than 14,000 of them Down East - without el...

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