Isaias New Power Outage Update: These Litchfield County Communities Are Most Affected
More than 50,000 Litchfield residents are still in the dark two days after Tropical Storm Isaias ripped through the region, toppling trees, felling utility poles, and sending power lines flying.
Hundreds of Eversource line, tree, and service crews worked through the night after Tropical Storm Isaias and minor tornadoes tore through Connecticut causing widespread and historic damage to the company’s electric system, according to the company.
In Litchfield County, as of 10:40 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 6, there were still 50,705 Eversource customers without power.
A breakdown of active power out…
A Week Later, 14K Eversource Customers Without Power In Fairfield County
* How Much Snow Did You Get? A Look At Totals From The Area
More than 50,000 Connecticut residents, including 14,596 in Fairfield County, remain without power as the tri-state area continues to clean up from the latest winter storm that dropped upwards of a foot of snow in parts of Fairfield County.
Eversource is reporting that 50,815 of their 1,269,304 customers are reporting outages as of 12:30 p.m. on Friday, which is still impacting 4 percent of residents, including more than 1,000 outages reported in Stamford, New Canaan, Norwalk, Wilton and Weston.
Hundreds of out-of-state contractor…