Storm damage roundup from around the state:

GORHAM: A large number of customers in Gorham lost power for about an hour during the heavy lightning and rain around 2 p.m. yesterday. Public safety officials speculated that a lightning strike caused a transformer to blow. The outage began shortly after 2 p.m. and was repaired at about 3 p.m.

BRIDGTON: Was it a tornado? Maybe. Yesterday, at the height of the storm, a funnel cloud was reported in Bridgton, where trees were uprooted by high winds. One tree fell on a house.

Kirk Apffel of the weather service office in Gray said a team will be sent to the site today to inspect the damage and determine whether it was an actual tornado.

PORTLAND: The National Weather Service in Gray reports that Portland broke a record yesterday! A record rainfall of 1.77 inches in one day was set, thanks to the storm that blew through. This breaks the old record of 1.56 inches of rain in one day, set in 1976.

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