Mainer here. While we do get frequent outages during bad weather, the amount from yesterday's storm is a little unusual. The winds we got were more severe than what we usually get so there's a lot of downed trees out there which is the primary cause of outages in the state. Most of our power lines are above ground, I'd imagine that it has to do with how rural the state is making buried lines impractical.
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Mainer here. While we do get frequent outages during bad weather, the amount from yesterday's storm is a little unusual. The winds we got were more severe than what we usually get so there's a lot of downed trees out there which is the primary cause of outages in the state. Most of our power lines are above ground, I'd imagine that it has to do with how rural the state is making buried lines impractical.