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Weeks Mills Road closed with downed trees, lines

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Line technicians stage at the Farmington Fairgrounds Thursday afternoon.

FARMINGTON – Another day of high winds resulted in more downed lines in Franklin County Thursday, closing the Weeks Mills Road.

Fire responders put up barricades to block off the intersection with Route 43 down to the Hardy Farm, Franklin County Emergency Management Agency Director Tim Hardy said, after the second day of high winds in a week dropped trees and lines across the road. The road will remain closed until the lines can be removed.

While downtown Farmington lost power for roughly an hour Thursday morning, Central Maine Power was reporting fewer than 200 outages in the county by mid-afternoon.

Tuesday, powerful winds resulted in thousands of Mainers losing power, including the MSAD 58 schools in Franklin County. The Wilton Transfer Station was also forced to close for two days due to downed poles and trees.

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  1. I don’t understand why CMP doesn’t trim trees away from the power lines in the summer, to avoid some of these outages when the cold weather, sometimes with high winds, comes..

  2. Mavis, I suspect it’s because they’re busy trying to pull a scam on us in order to ensure that Massachusetts has cheap electricity.

  3. Mavis, I dont know where you live that you can’t see Lucas Tree trimming for cmp all summer? These outages are much more costly now for them now. They know this. Its not some conspiracy. I am no fan of cmp but they do have a pretty good program in place for keeping the trees trimmed. Much better than years ago.

  4. If you have trees on your property/street/road and CMP or Lucas comes along to tell you they need to be cut, and you look up and see gorgeous greenery, see if you agree. There is way more politics in trees than we are willing to admit. (Think about how tall a roadside tree is, and if you would be happy seeing the roads bared this far back)

  5. CMP isn’t a local company anymore–it’s Avangrid, a Spanish company. Since deregulation in 2000, I think the Mainers who work at CMP have been trying to do the best they can with all of the chaos from the top.

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