Georgetown Central School and the town office were among the buildings without power this morning as the result of high winds from Tuesday night’s storm.

Mary McDonald, town treasurer and assistant to the Board of Selectmen, said at 8 a.m. that school had been scheduled to start late this morning, but she didn’t know if students were headed there or not. School was later canceled.

The winds knocked trees down on power lines Tuesday night, resulting in 2,274 power outages from Yarmouth to Waldo County, a Central Maine Power Co. spokeswoman said this morning.

Gail Rice said that, of those totals, 1,800 CMP customers lost electricity in Sagadahoc County.

A Sagadahoc County dispatcher reported this morning that Georgetown was particularly hard hit.

At 8 a.m., a tree was reported down on a vehicle in Bath.

Residents of western Maine reported power outages at around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, then the storm spread eastward, Rice said. The reported power losses peaked at around 7:30 a.m. today, at around 11,000, she said.

“It was a lot of wind blowing tree limbs into power lines,” Rice said. “The trimming that we’ve done has been instrumental in reduc- ing the amount of outages.”

All hands were on deck this morning to restore power.

“Everyone available was out, plus we contracted some people,” Rice said.

CMP officials knew the storm was coming.

“We were watching for it and we knew it was coming,” Rice said. “This was in the forecast.”

The hardest hit areas were the Kennebec County communities of Winthrop, Vassalboro and Wayne, according to CMP.

Bangor Hydro Electric Co. reported about 8,700 outages, most in Hancock and Penobscot counties.

Bangor Hydro says crews are expected to take most of the day to fix the damage caused by high winds that downed tree limbs.

Customers are reminded to stay clear of fallen power lines and trees touching them.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS contributed to this story.