Website glitches, tells some Maine residents their power won’t be back on until 2068
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A website glitch struck fear into the hearts of some Mainers on Thursday when Central Maine Power notified them their lights might not come back on until 2068.
Outages affected tens of thousands of the company’s customers after a brutal storm swept through New England on Wednesday night. More than 200,000 Maine residents were left without power, according to the Maine Emergency Management Agency.
The majority of those residents were Central Maine Power customers, and many of them went online to find out when they could expect repairs to be completed. Some were met with a startling answer: not for nearly half a century.
The company addressed the glitch in a tweet Thursday morning, and it appears to have been resolved since then — though it is still unclear how long most of the repairs will take.
More than 85,000 CMP customers were still without power as of Friday afternoon.
https://twitter.com/cmpco/status/1184825734487072769
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