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BY CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMS | SUN JOURNAL
Snowbirds are flocking north earlier than usual to escape the coronavirus, while winter weekenders are hunkered down in their winter ski homes, several Maine contractors have observed.
Pete Kamm, owner of Pete’s Plumbing and Heating Inc. in Strong, said he was listening last week to a Boston talk radio show when the host observed everyone in that city was fleeing to their summer homes in Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard.
“The plumbers were being driven crazy trying to open those houses early,” Kamm said.
Then his phone rang.
“All of a sudden it started happening to me, too,” he said Wednesday.
And not just him.
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