Published: February 17, 2025 2:56 p.m.
During the 835 Newtown Eversource customers on Monday afternoon, February 17, without electricity, thousands of the 12,158 Eversource customers in Newtown lost on Sunday afternoon, February 16, and now to power. Strong wind advice remains effective by Tuesday.
For those who are still without electricity, the community center is open to those who need a warm place to charge electronics or bathroom facilities. The Newtown Police Department is also open around the clock for those who want to warm up or charge devices.
Donna Culbert, director of the health department, said the storm combined snow, ice, rain and strong winds in combination. First Selectman Jeff Capeci said the wind that picked up overnight on Sunday when the temperatures for Eversource workers were dangerous to restore the power supply. The storm started on Saturday evening with snow, which turned into icy rain and rain, which means that many were woke up to a layer of snow and a slush with a thick layer of ice on Sunday morning. The rain continued during the day and generated more slush and deep rain puddles before the temperatures dived on Sunday evening and hit the winds.
Fortunately, Newtowns Department of Public Works stayed in front of things in advance and took sand and salt to prevent the rain and melting of snow from frozen on Monday and difficult to travel.
However, there were a large amount of power outages and down lines from the wind. The chief of police David Kullgren encouraged the residents to stay away from the streets so that the public work employees could continue to clarify the streets and supply companies that were able to carry out the necessary repairs to the power structure.
The police authority in Newtown encourages residents to keep away from the streets so that the public work employees can continue to clarify the streets and supply companies that can carry out the repairs required on the electricity infrastructure. The director of emergency communication, Maureen, warned that if the residents of the police see yellow precaution, to guide it and not try to achieve their own security because depressed lines could be ahead.
“Leave her alone, go around,” said Will. “Stay at home if you can.”
Capeci, who spent a large part of the day in the city's emergency company center with Culbert and wants to, both of them stayed overnight, said that there were many successes in restoring the power supply, but some setbacks as occasionally the neighborhoods had to be temporarily removed so that repairs The restoration of power must be repaired elsewhere.
Hundreds of Eversource line, tree and service crews are working to make repairs to the electrical system and to restore customers for customers after the snow and ice storm. Heavy, wet snow and thick ice coatings brought trees and branches to power lines and electrical devices that cause failures in communities near Connecticut. In view of the strong winds that influence the state on Monday, all weakened limbs will cause falls and further damage. Since the storm on Saturday evening, Eversource has restored around 85,000 customers, 76 critical facilities such as the police and fire brigade stations, hospitals, schools, sewage and water treatment facilities and 127 blocked roads. From 10 a.m. there will be about 14,000 customers without electricity, of which many individual customer failures are, which require time -consuming repairs. Additional crews from all over the region have arrived and the restoration efforts will arrive all day long.
“The crews make customers a solid progress as quickly and safely as possible that restores customers so quickly and safely, but the electrical system continues to take over damage due to the layers of ice, the trees weigh, and this limb we expect today, which we expect today “, Said Eversource President of Connecticut Electric Operations Steve Sullivan. “The freezing road conditions, especially on the side streets, also made the trips for our crews more difficult – and their efforts to get where they are needed. Our crews have worked tirelessly to react to priorities of the community such as blocked roads and at the same time delete damage and to make the necessary repairs to the electrical system. We brought additional crews with us to support the restoration efforts, and our team strives to stay around the clock until every customer has its power. “
Eversource reminds customers of keeping away from beveled cables-and report them immediately to 9–1–1 and report a failure online at www.eversource.com or by phone at 800-286-2000. The Energy Company also reminds customers who are without electricity and uses a generator to ensure that the generator is far from its house or business and the transmission switch works properly. Customers should also be careful if they carry out their own storm cleaning – when moving or cutting tree members, they are looking for wires that may be involved in rubble.
Further security tips can be found on the security page of the Eversource website.
The editor Jim Taylor can be reached at jim@thebee.com.
In the Newtown Emergency Operations Center after the weekend storm, Eversource Senior Strategic Account Executive Matt Hickey, director of the Ministry of Health, Donna Culbert, the EOC director Maureen, and First Selectman Jeff Capeci. – Bee Foto, Taylor
The Newtown emergency center still had a dilapidated branch on Monday, which partially blocked its entrance.