Ready for round two?

More than 9 inches of rain fell last weekend in a springlike fury over parts of Maine, washing out roads, flooding basements and bringing small streams and lakes to dangerously high levels.

Less than a week later, another storm is fast approaching.

As the state braced for the rain amid some sunshine Wednesday, some were pondering just how much more Maine can handle.

“We’re a little bit concerned about this latest storm. It’s raising concerns about more flooding,” said Tony Sturey, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Caribou.

The storm is likely to start late Friday and continue through Sunday.

Its path hasn’t been precisely forecast.

Sturey said it’s still early to forecast rainfall amounts, but said 2 inches could be possible.

That could spell trouble.

“Normally it wouldn’t be a concern, but the ground, especially in the southern part of the state, is already heavily saturated,” Sturey said.

State emergency management officials are still tallying damage amounts from last weekend’s rain.

“We’re staying in close touch with the National Weather Service, and we’re planning a conference call [today] with all the local emergency management agencies,” Maine Emergency Management Agency spokeswoman Lynette Miller said Wednesday afternoon.

The storm is moving slowly, but meteorologists are also dealing with conflicting models.

That adds a level of uncertainty to this weekend’s storm.

The biggest concern appears to be the southern part of the state and the western mountain region, but even in Penobscot County, agencies were on alert Wednesday.

“We have several areas along Route 2 – traditional low-lying areas that tend to flood,” said Penobscot County Emergency Management Director Tom Robertson. “In a lot of cases, as trite as it sounds, the water comes up and then it goes back down.”

Residents on Pushaw Lake in Glenburn, particularly at Hemlock Point, saw the water level rise to an uncomfortable level early this week, but it had gone down considerably as of Wednesday.

“It usually takes 48 to 72 hours for the water to come back down to a normal level,” Robertson said. “The ground just gets saturated, and I don’t think the ground has had enough time to absorb the water.”

In the coastal Lincoln County town of Edgecomb, hydrologists with the state Department of Transportation were dealing with a small human-made lake where a dam breach essentially drained the entire body of water.

While the latest storm isn’t expected to pack the same punch as last weekend’s, “We would expect the same kinds of damages, closed roads, flooded basements,” Miller said.

“The local agencies certainly know what small river and stream flooding is all about, and they know which areas typically see problems,” she added.

“Unfortunately, we’re getting a lot of practice,” Robertson said.