Storm cleanup is continuing as crews work to restore power to about 8,000 Eversource customers in Connecticut and multiple schools had a delay or closed on Tuesday.
The storm on Monday brought heavy rain and strong winds to the state for several hours. More than a month's worth of rain fell in many locations causing street, yard, basement and river flooding.
Dozens of trees and power lines came down across the state and there were more than 200 school closures and delays.
Eversource said that it had restored power to 178,000 customers and they are working around the clock until they complete restoration.
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By 11 p.m. on Wednesday, power will be restored for all customers, according to Eversource, and they expect to restore power for many before that.
"We're at the stage of the restoration process where repairs being made will only bring back a handful of customers, so the numbers on the outage map won't be dropping as quickly as they did earlier in the restoration..." President of Eversource Connecticut Steve Sullivan said.
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Norwich Public Utilities said the company has restored power to all but 50 customers and expects power to be back on for everyone by 5 p.m. There are seven separate incidents and one will take up to four hours to resolve, according to the utility company.
At the peak of the storm, power was out for 6,300 Norwich Public Utilities customers.
At one point on Monday morning, there were more than 88,000 power outages across the state. Eversource said it restored power to 42,000 customers within minutes of the outage by rerouting power.
Sullivan said that there will be new outages, even after the storm, because of the weakened state of trees and the saturated ground.
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