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Strong winds knock out power to over 7,800 across Connecticut

CTPost · last updated

Power was restored to hundreds of households in Connecticut on Sunday after strong winds brought down trees and limbs onto power lines and electrical equipment on Saturday.

Eversource reported at 7:15 a.m. on Sunday that 928 customers remained without power, with over 400 of those outages in Brookfield.

By 8:45 p.m. Sunday, there were only 18 outages across the state – most of them in Old Saybrook, according to Eversource.

As of 9:40 p.m. Saturday, Eversource had reported 3,114 customers without power, including 397 in Killingly, 184 in Norwalk, 481 in Stonington, 187 in Tolland and 140 in Windham.

United Illuminating, which supplies power to 17 municipalities in the Bridgeport and New Haven areas, had reported 130 customers without power as of 9:40 p.m. Saturday, including 26 in Ansonia, 22 in Bridgeport and 32 in Fairfield.

Only six customers in UI’s jurisdiction remained without power at 7:15 a.m. on Sunday, most of them in Fairfield, the company reported. By Sunday night the company reported no outages.

While the storm caused road closures in more than a dozen towns on Saturday, most roads appeared to have reopened by Sunday night.

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