
With a weather emergency issued for Bowdoin College, and non-essential staff asked to stay home Monday, crews on the Brunswick campus were cleaning up from the aftermath of Sunday night’s storm.
“It’s kind of a mess up here,” Scott Hood, senior vice president of communications and public affairs for the college, said on Monday afternoon.
The college is without power but is operating a generator in the dining hall, and in critical areas, such as science buildings.
Classes are held at the discretion of professors, Hood said, although teaching staff were asked not to come to campus. Those who work in the facilities, security and other essential staff to the operation of the school were working, Hood said.
Two trees were blown down in the quad, and a number of smaller pine trees were felled at the south end of Moulton Union. Also, a white picket fence was damaged by a tree when it fell near a newly purchased structure at 28 College St., Hood said.
He said there are no injuries reported and added he is not aware of additional damage to infrastructure besides the fence. Hood said the trees were blown down sometime in the middle of the Sunday night.
Hood said Sills Drive and Bath Road were closed Monday morning due to trees obstructing the roadway, and crews were working to clean up debris.
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