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In the Dark: Thousands Still Lack Power 3 Days Later

Sunday morning work continued to get the lights turned back on for thousands of customers left in the dark after Friday’s Nor’easter.

Several thousand Connecticut residents remained without power Monday after a weekend in the dark brought on by Friday's no'easter.

As of 3 p.m. Monday Eversource was reporting around 2,500 customers without power. 

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.

Eversource had estimated that the vast majority of customers would be restored by 9 p.m. Sunday but scattered outages remained Monday, with areas in western Connecticut seeing the most issues.

Because of power outages from Friday's storm, Greenwich Academy is closed Monday.

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Forty residents were evacuated when high winds damaged the Mystic River Inn.
A tree fell onto a house in the Southport section of Fairfield. No injuries were reported.
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The roof of a building on the Yale campus on Sachem Street partially collapsed due to the strong winds brought by Friday's nor'easter.
Maria Dufour
Griswold
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This is on High Street in Canaan.
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Tree down on Lombard and Poplar Streets in New Haven
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A tree is down on Route 69 in Burlington.
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Tree limb down in North Haven
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Road closed rt 169 south Canterbury
Brandon
Tree blocking road on service wires 218 Buckley Rd, Salem CT.
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Flooding in Westbrook.
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More flooding in Westbrook.
Cheryl Kee
Fallen tree in Waterbury
Theodore O'Neill
Lakeville, CT Almost whiteout here
Suzanne Stevens
Trampoline vs Jeep and Explorer in Killingworth
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East Haven flooding.
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More East Haven flooding.
Chad Lyons
Windy in Branford
Peter and Donna
At least 3 inches of heavy snow in Ellsworth section of Sharon!
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Darren Courtright
Truck crushed by tree in Groton
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Snow in Ridgefield From few minutes ago - 3 inches on ground! Roads terrible!
Ariana Zuniga
A local store sigh falls on a car on Whitney Ave Hamden Connecticut.
Val Riley
Tree down on Noank Ledyard Road in Mystic
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Snow in Sharon.
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A tree and pole down on Hunter Avenue in West Hartford.
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A tree uprooted on Mountain Road in West Hartford.
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A tree uprooted on Ridgewood Road in West Hartford.
Mike Schumitz
Farmington.
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Farmington.
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Middletown Avenue in North Branford Saturday morning.
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Fence damage.
Trees down in Cromwell.
Justyna borek
Close call - Tree fell on car on Rt 68 in prospect
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Down Trees / Wires Wilton Old Highway, Wilton
Kathleen Douglass
his WAS our storage shed. It was even tied down with heavy rope all around; that obviously didn't work with this powerful wind in Wallingford.
Betsy Herlihy
The Stony Creek Beach/Marina around 12:30 p.m. Saturday.

Linemen from as far away as Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee were called in to help with restoration efforts. 

Neighboring Massachusetts was hard-hit, with significant flooding and wind damage along coastal areas. With another storm coming Wednesday, there are concerns the debris could cause even more damage.

Much of the east coast was affected by the storm, which is being blamed for nine deaths.

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