Heavy winds caused trees to collapse onto Randy Mosley’s 1998 GMC Sierra parked at his home on the Boggy Brook Road in Ellsworth on Sunday morning. Mosley estimates the damage at $1,500.—PHOTO COURTESY OF RANDY MOSLEY

ELLSWORTH — The tail end of Hurricane Noel slapped the Maine coast with heavy rains and winds of up to 70 miles per hour over the weekend.

Due to extensive damage, power outages resulting from the storm that hit the coast Saturday continued into Wednesday in Hancock County. Additional sporadic outages are expected over the next few days due to residual damage from the hurricane.

Deer Isle, Stonington, Sedgwick, Brooklin, Brooksville and Blue Hill saw the most damage, with 31 customers remaining without power from 6 p.m. Saturday until Tuesday afternoon.

Crews from Central Maine Power worked with Bangor Hydro to restore power throughout Hancock County for the bulk of the week.

As the utility crews worked to repair the last of the power outages Tuesday, the Downeast coast was hit with more heavy winds from a hurricane-related, low-pressure system that came in across Quebec. The winds reached 60 miles per hour, leaving several hundred in Sorrento and a handful of other Hancock County customers without power until late that evening.

The remnants of Hurricane Noel that swept up the Eastern Seaboard over the weekend hit Hancock County the hardest in the state. Nearly 5,000 were left without power by early Sunday morning. Several thousand throughout Lincoln, Piscataquis, Penobscot and Washington counties were also without power over the weekend. Some area homeowners experienced minor property damage due to the storm in addition to the outages. Tree crews worked through Wednesday to clear broken trees and limbs and keep them from the power lines.

Hurricane Noel began in the Caribbean Sea on Nov 1. It is being blamed for more than 140 deaths in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, the Bahamas and Jamaica, making it the most deadly hurricane of the 2007 Atlantic season. Thousands in the Caribbean were left homeless because of catastrophic flooding, and extensive damage was reported in Cuba.

The storm battered the New England coast over the weekend, causing flooding, felling shallow-rooted trees and taking down power lines. Coastal flood warnings and flood watches were numerous up and down the coast.

High wind warnings were in effect for coastal Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, New Jersey and the eastern tip of New York’s Long Island throughout the week.