While Hurricane Sandy pounded areas of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, residents in the Lakes Region felt the storm’s wrath by going without electricity. While some areas didn’t lose power, others such as Windham and Standish still had thousands without power Wednesday. Signs of significant damage were rare, downed trees and wires posed dangers across the area on Monday and Tuesday, closing roads. Many businesses in the area were up and running by Tuesday morning with public works and utility crews working quickly on major roadways to restore power to homes and to clear hazards. Staff photos by John Balentine

Central Maine Power line workers restore power along Route 114 near the Sebago/Naples town line Tuesday.
The Sebago Town Hall doubled as an emergency shelter during the storm that at its peak cut electricity to about 165,000 homes served by Central Maine Power.
Jean Levine collects blown down limbs strewn across the front yard of her home on Pope Road in Windham Tuesday morning.
Windham home roof peeled on Route 202Political signs weren’t the only ones to get blown over and away in Hurricane Sandy. This toppled sandwich board sign points to a bean supper in the Sebago area.
A motorist negotiates a tree that fell onto electrical wires along Webb Road in Windham Tuesday morning.
The Route 4 sign just west of the Windham Rotary didn’t fare too well in Sandy’s high wind gusts.