LEWISTON — Wednesday was mostly calm — very white, but calm — across the region.

Driveways were cleared one final time with snowblowers, shovels and plows. Roads were scraped down to the tar and most businesses opened their doors after hunkering down Tuesday as the storm named Juno raged.

Students in Lewiston and Auburn were enjoying their second straight day off, but mostly it was business as usual. Mainers had survived the fierce midwinter storm and without much drama.

“We’re doing pretty good,” Joanne Potvin, director of Androscoggin County’s Emergency Management Agency, said. She said no incidents were reported overnight Tuesday and that agency activities were largely back to normal.

Only nine homes in Androscoggin County lost power during the storm and all were in Poland, Potvin said.

She said the many schools in the region that were closed for a second day made the right choice as sidewalks and side roads were still being cleared.

“I think it was very, very prudent for them to have an additional day,” Potvin said, noting that the volume of snow was too much for smaller staffs to clear in a single day.

Local businesses, such as Lost Valley Ski Area, were happy to have the new snow after a fairly dry December and early January.

“We are very optimistic,” said Lincoln Hayes, a co-owner of the Auburn ski resort. “Any time you get 27 inches of the light and fluffy — it doesn’t get any better than that.”

Hayes said the midweek timing of the storm was probably a good thing and more snow in the forecast likely would result in more skiers and snowboard riders visiting the ski hill.

Sarah Devlin, a spokeswoman for Sunday River Ski Resort in Newry, said Juno dumped over 18 inches of snow. One sound early Wednesday was making her smile, she said.

“All I can hear is (ski) boots buckling,” Devlin said.

Greg Sweetser, executive director of Ski Maine, an industry association, said with snow on the ground from the coast to the mountains, “the visual reminder” that helps people think about outdoor winter activities such as skiing was in place.

Sweetser said the natural snow was especially important to the state’s cross-country ski centers, which do not make snow.

He said the late January timing of the storm was great for resorts, which are heading into the busiest parts of their season in February and March.

Sweetser summed up the industry’s feelings about Juno in two words: “We’re pumped,” he said.

Final snowfall amounts were still being reported at the National Weather Service station in Gray early Wednesday, but it was likely the blizzard was going into the record books, at least for some parts of the state.

“As you moved away from the coast, you tended to get less snow,” said Michael Sempa, a meteorologist at the station. “The bull’s-eye was the southwestern part of the state; that’s where the higher amounts were in general.”

The forecast? More snow on the way Friday and Monday, with predictions this time calling for a measly half a foot.

According to the National Weather Service in Gray, final snowfall totals, calculated in inches, for some towns in Androscoggin, Franklin and Oxford counties were:

* Andover, 9;

* Auburn, 24;

* Bethel, 18;

* Bryant Pond, 14;

* Durham, 23;

* Eustis, 6.9;

* Farmington, 22;

* Greene, 30;

* Hartford, 18.8;

* Lewiston, 28.5;

* Lisbon Falls, 24;

* New Sharon, 14;

* Oxford, 28;

* Peru, 17.5; and

* Southern Turner, 22.

And here comes another?

GRAY — The National Weather Service almost seems hesitant to talk about it: In the wake of the monster storm that pounded the state this week, what’s a few inches more?

“Another system will approach the area by Friday morning,” according to the NWS forecast, “spreading several inches of snow across the region throughout the day.”

With 6 inches or more possible, the approaching storm was enough for the NWS to issue yet another winter storm watch from Thursday night until late Friday.

It sounds routine, but that 6 inches will fall on top of nearly 30 inches that fell across the region Tuesday. There might even be some sleet, the weather service warned. And some ice buildup and winds gusting up to 20 mph.

After Friday night, clearing, but not for long. Consider the weekend a respite. Yet another storm is expected Monday and this one, forecasters say, could bring as much as a foot of snow to the region.

The sheer volume could mean trouble for homeowners.

“With the large amount of snow on rooftops from (Tuesday’s) storm, and to add another 6 inches or more to that, there is a danger for roof collapses,” said Joanne G. Potvin, director of the Androscoggin Unified Emergency Management Agency.

“If there is no collapse,” she said, “future rain and snowmelt will have no place to drain and may dam up and cause significant interior damage when the roof begins to leak. Homeowners and building and business owners need to be thinking about snow removal from rooftops.”

Fire officials advised that emergency or secondary exits should be cleared of snow.

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