There's some pictures on Facebook of some trees downed on the railroad.
Monday was certainly a crazy day. My house lost power at 2:30 in the morning, we don't yet have it back. We also lost internet and TV, but fortunately those are now back. I work for the State in Augusta, and live in Newcastle, normally a 33 mile/50 minute drive. The State did not call the day off, as they sometimes do for events like snowstorms. So let me describe my drive in to work.
I normally leave for work at 6. This time of year, the sun doesn't come up until after 7, so as I had no desire to drive to work in wind-whipped downpour conditions in the dark, I waited until about quarter of 8 to leave. Meanwhile, I was up at 5:30 getting the generator going, and the rain and wind were plenty strong.
My road had a tree down just up the street from me blocking most of the road, but I could drive around on the shoulder. Further down the road there was evidence that one or two trees had blocked the road and been cleared. Route 1 was fine, no blockages at all. I normally take Rt. 27 from Wiscasset to Randolph, then Rt 9 into Augusta. Rt 27 was passable, with a few downed trees and many hanging from wires but nothing totally blocking the road, until I got to Dresden. There, a fire fighter told me to turn back and take Alexander Rd around the blockage. Alexander Road is a narrow dirt road most of the way, and this morning was also rather muddy with trees partially blocking the road and hung up on wires, almost the entire way. Fortunately I didn't encounter anyone coming the other way on the narrow portions. Once I got back on 27, I got another mile before another blockage turned me back to Rt 128. The fire fighter at the junction of 27 and 128 told me to take Everson Road at the bottom of the hill - another dirt road. This wasn't quite as bad as Alexander road, but had its share of tree trash on the side. Finally back to 27, then to Rt 9. I got into Chelsea on 9, then got diverted onto Cheney Rd - and by inference, Davenport Rd and two other roads. Except Davenport Rd had a "Road Closed" sign on it. So I back tracked down to Randolph, over to Gardiner, and back up to Augusta without incident. It took me about 90 minutes to get to work.
I found out when I got to work that most of the other offices on my street were without power, but we had power. Then at noon our network went down - and it turned out that we got our network connection from one of the other office without power, and the battery backup had died on the network equipment.
Going home that afternoon I took 295 down to Richmond, and over to 27. When I got home my road was closed because of a tree completely blocking the road below me. It wasn't until yesterday that my road was opened.
Downtown Newcastle and Damariscotta were without power for two days - normally they're back up in a day if they go down at all, because the hospital line goes through there.
