Even more than five hours after Monday afternoon's brief thunderstorm, New Canaanites were still feeling the effects well into the night. Power was restored to the entire town by the early morning, but even as late as midnight 262 New Canaan homes were still without power, according to Connecticut Light and Power.
Outages reached their peak of 473 earlier in the evening, or about 5 percent of the town. At one time, New Canaan had the most reported outages of any town in CL&P's coverage, with more than 21 percent of the company's service problems. The storm has also caused many other inconveniences throughout the state, including heavy traffic on Interstate 95 and a postponement for the Rams' girls tennis team, which saw their first-round state tournament match this afternoon rained out.
Depending on your perspective, New Canaanites either have it worse or better off than their nieghbors in Darien. The town saw 19.2 percent of its homes lose power earlier this afternoon (more than 1,400 homes), but almost all of them saw electricity restored by 9 p.m.
Meanwhile, on Interstate 95, slippery conditions may have caused an accident that backed up traffic for miles on the southbound side and slowed down traffic significantly in northbound lanes as travelers tried to see the wreckage. The accident occurred over the Saugatuck River, just before exit 17 in Westport, at about 6:14 p.m. At last report, southbound traffic was nearly stopped past exit 19 in Fairfield. The Westport Fire Department said everyone who could provide more information was still at the scene.
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