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Latest Updates On CT Christmas Storm: Power Outages, Flooding
A powerful storm knocked out power to tens of thousands of Connecticut residents on Christmas morning. Here are the town-by-town updates
CONNECTICUT — Nearly 4,000 Connecticut residents are without power the day after Christmas after a powerful storm rolled through in the early morning hours of Christmas Day. The number of outages has dropped by about 32,000 since 7 a.m. Christmas morning when there were 36,000 reported outages across the state.
Between two and three inches of rain fell and with the rapid snow melt flooding is still a major concern in parts of Middlesex and Hartford counties.
Rainfall reports from across CT as reported by the National Weather Service:
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Fairfield County
- Monroe: 2.50 IN
- Danbury 1.71 IN
- Brookfield 1.52 IN
- Fairfield 1.51 IN
- Bethel 1.50 IN
- Danbury Airport 1.43 IN
- Ridgefield 1.37 IN
- Redding 1.25 IN
- Sherman 1.12 IN
Middlesex County
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- N Durham 3.00 IN
- Middletown 2.84 IN
- Durham 2.25 IN
- Higganum 2.17 IN
- W Durham 1.46 IN
- Clinton 3.7 N 1.20 IN
- Essex Village 1.05 IN
- Killingworth 1.05 IN
New Haven County
- Wolcott 1.84 IN
- Cheshire 1.82 IN
- Prospect 1.75 IN
- Waterbury 1.73 IN
- Wallingford 1.54 IN
- Seymour 1.5 NE 1.43 IN
- W Ansonia 1.32 IN
- Meriden Airport 1.32 IN
- Madison Center 1.29 IN
- Naugatuck 1.17 IN
- Bethany 1.17 IN
- Hamden 1.06 IN
- ESE New Haven 1.06 IN
- Milford 1.01 IN
- E Branford 1.00 IN
New London County
- Waterford 2.26 IN
- Groton 1.89 IN
- New London 1.85 IN
- SE Norwich 1.71 IN
- Quaker Hill 1.51 IN
- Niantic 1.25 IN
- Mystic 1.16
Hartford County
- Simsbury 3.11
- Bristol 3.01
- Glastonbury 2.84
- Manchester 2.61
- Wethersfield 2.21
- Avon 2.18
Tolland County
- Staffordville 2.04
Windham County
- Ashford 2.41
Wind gusts across Connecticut:
Fairfield County
- Greenwich 71 MPH
- Stamford 70 MPH
- Bridgeport 61 MPH
- Fairfield 49 MPH
- Danbury Airport 47 MPH
Middlesex County
- Chester 40 MPH
New Haven County
- Waterbury Airport 54 MPH
- Meriden Airport 53 MPH
- Hammonasset 49 MPH
- Milford 48 MPH
- Lighthouse Point 47 MPH
- New Haven 45 MPH
New London County
- Groton Airport 41 MPH
Hartford County
- Bradley AP 62 MPH
- Hartford-Brainard AP 48 MPH
- Tree down on Washington Street in Plainville.
Windham County
- Willimantic 48 MPH
- Danielson 46 MPH
- Tree down at intersection of Route 197 and Route 198 in Woodstock
- Tree, wires, and part of utility pole snapped on Providence Road at Prince Hill Road in Brooklyn
- Tree down on Angel Road at Route 244 in Pomfret.
Tolland County
- Tree down on wires on Meadow Brook Road in Somers
- Tree down blocking the road at the intersection of swamp and Brewster Roads in Coventry.
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Eversource power outages by town: Outages current as of 9:30 a.m. Saturday
UI power outages as of 8 p.m.
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