a. Near Augusta, Maine (photo Central Maine Power).
b. Champlain, New York (photo Mulherin).
15. Examples of damaged distribution lines.
tomers for each street in each city in its service area, cannot be readily summarized to provide a
snapshot of the effect of the storm in its service area. Its personnel attributed the relatively lighter
damage to its system to its recently implemented effective tree clearing program (Jeff Fenn, Ken
Miller, and George Baker, personal communication). Eastern Maine Electric Coop, based in
Calais, had distribution outages to about half of its customers that took up to a week to repair
(Charles McAlpin, Eastern Maine Electric Coop, personal communication). The weight of the
ice on wires and falling ice-laden branches and trees brought down wires and broke 80 poles.
Outages occurred from Topsfield south to the southern boundary of its service area, which runs
along Route 9 east to Calais on Passamaquoddy Bay. North of Topsfield the bulk of the precipita-
tion fell as ice pellets, which accumulate on the ground, but do not stick to trees and wires.
Some New Hampshire utilities were hard hit by the ice storm, while others escaped the brunt
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