Storm Knocks Out Power To Hundreds In Fairfield County, Thousands In Connecticut

Thousands of Connecticut residents are without power as a nasty storm with whipping winds and heavy downpours rolls through the region.

An Eversource utility company worker checking power lines.
Photo Credit: *Provided/ Eversource*

Zak Failla

01/24/2019 3:00 p.m.

As of 2:45 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 24, 9,582 Eversource and United Illuminating customers were reporting outages, down slightly from earlier in the day as crews work to restore power throughout the state.

United Illuminating is reporting a total of 5,154 of their 335,073 customers are reporting outages stemming from 515 incidents.

In Fairfield County, Trumbull was hit the hardest (514 outages), followed by Shelton (12 outages), Bridgeport (five), Fairfield (four) and Stratford (one).

Eversource is reporting that 4,407 of their 1,273,376 customers are being impacted by outages, with only Westport reporting less than five outages in Fairfield County.

Related story: Eye Of The Storm: Heavy Rain, Strong Winds Making For A Wet Mess

The storm is expected to last through the afternoon. Check back to Daily Voice for updates.

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