More than 30 couples competed in the North American Wife Carrying Championship, a 278-yard (254-meter) race during which contestants splash through water, leap over logs and trudge through mud — all while carrying their partner like a sack of potatoes.

Central Maine Power is reporting that thousands of people are without power on Saturday morning. CMP is reporting around 72,244 outages throughout the state as of 10:37 a.m. on their website. CMP began to track the possibility of strong winds on Thursday and placed line crews and tree care crews on double coverage Friday.

More than 21,699 Central Maine Power customers are without electricity as of 12:00 a.m. Saturday.On Friday, the company said they were preparing to respond to outages caused by high winds. Sign up for our Newsletters"Line crews and tree care crews were placed on double coverage and are already deployed into the field to restore power to customers,