BREAKING NEWS: Power out for 2,026 Versant customers on MDI
MOUNT DESERT, Sept. 16, 2023 - The vulnerable grid on the Quietside was exposed to Hurricane Lee today as Versant Power reported 2,026 homes without power in its live outage map.
Tremont, Seal Cove, Pretty Marsh and Northeast Harbor sustained the highest number of outages - 1,915. Bar Harbor reported 111 as of this writing. Tremont had 698 outages and Northeast Harbor had 509.
Versant reported 36,000 homes without power out of 166,000 customers served.
CMP reported 53,142 homes without power out of 671,087 customers served.
The number is bound to increase as the storm rages through Saturday night.
I always look forward to your articles. They are interesting and your research is so thorough that a serious topic almost reads like a comedy piece. This recent power outage is nothing other than a typical outage associated with a powerful storm. The storm and the grid infrastructure are separate stories. Even if the entire system were replaced a week ago there is nothing stopping a spruce tree from falling onto the lines.