Emergency responders and utility crews were working to repair damage to power lines, roads and flooded areas Wednesday, two days after a nor’easter lashed the state, leaving thousands without power, closing roads and downing trees.

In Westbrook, a Central Maine Power Co. worker and a utility crew from Presque Isle went to the rescue of cold, stranded elderly Wednesday. Several residents in part of Longfellow Place accessed by Huntress Avenue had been without power since Monday because of downed power lines, which closed the road.

“We’re going to get on it,” said CMP worker Bob Haskell of South Portland, jumping out of an orange pickup truck at about 11 a.m.

By Tuesday evening, Central Maine Power Co. had restored power to more than half of the 127,585 customers who lost power during the storm, which brought high winds that snapped trees, branches and utility poles and heavy rain that flooded rivers and brooks, damaging homes businesses, bridges and roads. Of the 56,345 customers who still had no power Tuesday night 17,363 of them were in the Portland area – one of the hardest hit by the storm.

Central Maine Power Co. also received assistance this week from additional utility crews from Canadian maritime provinces New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, as well as tree removal crews from New York, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania.

-Staff Writer Robert Lowell