Emergency management officials in Cumberland and York counties say they didn’t receive any reports of flooding or storm-related damage Saturday.
A Christmas Day wind and rain storm brought minimal if any damage to most parts of Maine, with almost all power outages across the state restored by Saturday morning and only minor reports of flooding. As of 2 p.m. there were only five Central Maine Power customers without electricity. Versant Power, which serves customers in northern and eastern Maine, was reporting five outages impacting about 190 customers. The Christmas Day storm was forecast to bring gusty winds of up to 60 mph and a high risk of electricity outages. While many parts of the state saw 1 to 2 inches of rain, the extreme winds didn’t materialize and topped out at gusts of 40 to 50 mph. The National Weather Service in Gray was predicting that warm temperatures could create snow melt that would combine with the rain to produce flooding Saturday, but as of early afternoon no reports of major flooding had materialized. Flood warnings remained in effect, however, for the Androscoggin River in Auburn and for the Kennebec River in Hallowell, Augusta, North Sidney and Skowhegan and were expected to remain in place through Saturday evening.
