PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • December 17, 2022
The state’s first widespread snowstorm cut power to tens of thousands of residents Friday and Saturday and dumped up to 2 feet of heavy, wet snow in interior sections of Maine. The Bethel region went from bare ground Friday morning to all-white Saturday with 22 inches of snow or more. In all, approximately 108,700 Central Maine Power customers lost power, with most of the outages in western and northern Maine. By 5 p.m. Saturday CMP had restored about 43,000 households, but nearly 65,000 remained without power as the storm left Maine.