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Power Outages Now Top 350,000 Statewide - WABI

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Power Outages Now Top 350,000 Statewide

Published: Dec. 18, 2023 at 11:20 AM EST|Updated: 4 hours ago

BANGOR, Maine (WABI) - Thousands of Mainers are out of power as a rain and wind storm makes its way across the state.

Outage numbers continue to climb.

As of 3:15pm Monday, there are over 33,900 Versant customers without power and over 341,000 CMP customers without power, which is more than half of their customers.

To check the latest outage numbers for CMP, click here. To check outages for Versant, click

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