Work continued Sunday to get the lights turned back on for thousands of customers left in the dark after Friday’s Nor’easter.
About 9,000 outages remain as of 4:30 p.m. Sunday, according to Eversource. For a breakdown of estimated restoration times by town, click here.
Eversource officials said as of Sunday evening they had restored power to 174,000 homes and businesses since the start of the storm. Officials estimated there were around 500 broken utility poles, 87 miles worth of electrical lines down, and nearly 400 roadblocks over the course of the storm.
In New Fairfield, 10 percent of customers were still waiting for their power to return.
Over 600 Eversource customers in New Fairfield were without power Sunday morning, and another 500 plus in neighboring New Milford. Down the shoreline Greenwich, shaded in red, still had over 4,000 customers in the dark.
Crews are stretched out across the state, working around the clock to get everyone back online.
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NBC Connecticut caught up with crews working to restore power in Montville and Preston. Lineman from as far away as Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee are helping in the effort.
"It makes you feel good when you turn lights on for people and help them out,” said Sam Dillard, who is from Leesburg, Mississippi.
Eversource said it has restored power to more than 130,000 customers throughout the storm and said the destruction is statewide.
“We’re making progress. Still a lot of work to do. A lot of people out here in the field taking care of things,” Eversource spokesman Mitch Gross said Saturday night.
Across the state in Preston, about 40 percent of town was cut off from the electrical grid Saturday. Residents said it came as no surprise.
“We do lose power in every major storm that comes through. It’s a narrow road, lots of dead trees,” Bill O’Neill of Preston, said.
By Sunday morning, only 74 customers in Preston remained without power.
Eversource officials said they have crews working across the state and expect the vast majority of customers to be restored by 9 p.m. Sunday. Crews will be out in the hardest hit areas through the late evening hours Sunday.
