Sun-Journal from Lewiston, Maine • 1

t'f i i rA" vryrrrrir v7'-' V' 7 7 -V' '-V'- 'vr' SPORTS: Sox' Vaughn arrested for DWI Cl Storm edition LOCAL: Shelters provide safe haven BL l- 1 ii- rr'i i 1 '1 go'i: I v-c 1 a -v-V 'in I si 4 i i v': 1 1 Jfc)i vrf 4V- 7 Vi vf-V 'v 1 MM' aaM mmm ByMabkLaFlamme StqffWriter A the wont Ice Matin in decades slid into its thinl day Friday morc than a quarter of a mulion Maine homes and business- eswetewidioutpowec Residents struggBng without heat electridty or hot water weie flocking to what few stores were raen to stock up on provisions and to nil fuel tanks in theircarsand trucks 'They're buying everything: gas watet been cigarettes you name it' said Leanne Harrman at the BigAp-pie convenience store on Main Ifslikelytoget worse before itgetsbetter 7 CMPspokamm Street incredible my store Is wtoedouL flashlights ind batteries also were big sellers as area residents came to grips with the notion that electricity maybeoutfordaystocome At 4 pjn Friday 255)00 CMP customers in central and southern Maine were without power Power to a few neighborhoods in scattered locations was restored crews from -i IS a vv-i :7 77' Sv: HI 'r w- ii MPOfloe said car crashes were at a v-IX -SjSWJ: -1 I i i 'T ThidkShMts of ice were breakirm were ''i vS 1 i9' fci- -AV-rt) --iii I KJ(' and Mbit pets from shelter evr wi -j- jJ 1 1 ciinje at alL Infect rnauve- lyqinternuofcrfanactivhji out there responding to calls and rr r-WA Memorial Park grourdskwipet(3HrSBSargBrtcl8ara the flritantrae MMMlhe part office lawn Attg v- nwSet toners liwrtA PWerej i-irtHnirfmtinMHwttia dart and News end the Lewiston Sun Journal Hosnitalsoneenerators noli20J)00 were without powerafter power outages hought printing Tr'--'- t'1' 1 pitals without power IIalonMMrattrt V'1'' Maine were Joined by others from CHMNEDTO A JOK Massachusetts and farther south to s-- dean un and make repairs 'like rifle fire as they crashed to the SSSouiwe ground AnngS udltta era Maine cities and towns Friday IK Graceiawn rhedtothe tl die repahi i that dMmonuidmaieraw PIXASB SEE SHELTER PAGE A8 v-7 City shelter waim dry but not comfy by Carol Clapp StaflWfter LEWISTON Multiple sirens wailed in the dty Great gobs of icd hung down to the tops of antennas '7 on two cruisers parked outside the entrance to die building An ambu- lance was Headed into the shelter Friday couples teetered against each other their arms filled with blankets and pillows Children trailed after their mothers everyone lugging lumjpy trash bags aU taking care not to into slush-filled potholes as they crossed a parking lot behind Lewiston High School 7 wSvmrnMMsIhnBAmy TAIUMO BEFUBi: Monica Carney reads with hersoqKflrteand Joseph SJSSiSiSS WPjsirrtsRedCnwshett pie wandered around with steaming bowls of Dinty Moore beef stew steamed-up windows of idling cars Gascon amsim Jolsnu irsoakarter and Joseph i High School Friday Jus inside the door men with WTiilemost oPL-A 7 was a ghost town: business was boorn-7- Ing at businesses fortunate enough to have power pagers A' A note to readers: -Tbday you will receive two-- newspapers in one Friday Sun Journal has been inserted into edition Our employees did every- thing possible to bring you Fn- day newspaper on time and packed frill of winter storm coverage However just after the newspaper was completed our plant in Lewiston lost all electrical service and the newspapers could not be printed That electrical service was not re-established until mid- day Friday In the meantime V- PLEASE SEE NOTE PAGE A8 1 Tndh NMce BY RANDY WHITEHOUSE technology and have neglected our smm vwtw personal he said Mfefrdled to do the little things that LEWISTON Part of Peter Van could make the difference between job as director of the An- being reasonably comfortable in a dioscoggin Unified Emergency Man-situatkm like this or throwing upour agement Agency is to prepare for arms and saying God going to freeze to thefannofthe Those simple things inchideenwr-worst ice storm In memory hap- ncy water canned food sleeping 1 bags and bstterie In this age of in- But after fielding bundreds of calls stant gratification Gagnon said too arourui the clock since Thursday many people expect those things to fmwntng one filing was clear to be there for them on demand and Gagnon: very few people were pte- when not people re pared' 1 Stumped' Gagnon and ofiwr public safety of- The price for that Gagnon saidj is fidabare constantly warning dti- demonstrated In the phone calls the sens to be ready for when the lights EMA has handled People expect the go out tod heat goes off and the agency to loan them a generator or pipes freeze because one day some batteries tying up die plumes will happen when those with legitimate emer- The problem Gagnoni said be- gendes need to get through A tween rings of hU phone at EMA headquarters in the basement of wheelchair-bound" said Joanne Lewiston Central Fire Station is that Potvin EMA coordinator has a we have become a society where tracheotomy and has a wife who 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