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THERE.NEWS EIGHT AT FIVE... IS
A BIG DAY... OF CLEANING UP
FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE... AFTER
HIGH WINDS AND HEAVY RAINS
BROUGHT DOWN TREES AND KNOCKED
OUT POWER TO THOUSANDS ACROSS
THE STATE.
HI EVERYONE... I'M DARREN
KRAMER. AND I'M SONIA
BAGHDADY. LAST NIGHT'S STORM
MADE A REAL MESS IN SOME TOWNS
IN THE STATE... INCLUDING A
LOT IN FAIRFIELD COUNTY.
NEWS EIGHT'S ALI REED VISITED
SOME OF THOSE TOWNS... TO TAKE
A CLOSER LOOK AT THE DAMAGE.
IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE THAT THIS
SCENE....HIGH WINDS AND HEAVY
RAIN...COULD LEAD TO THIS ONE
LESS THAN 24 HOURS LATER.
CREWS WERE KEEPING BUSY ON
THIS SUNNY DAY....CLEARING
DOWNED TREES AND POWER LINES
ON TOWN ROADS. WESTON WAS ONE
OF THE HARDER HIT TOWNS IN THE
STATE OF CT WE HAD RIGHT
AROUND 20% OF OUR RESIDENTS
OUT OF POWER WHICH CAN
OBVIOUSLY BECOME PROBLEMATIC
FOR A TOWN WITH THE
INFRASTRUCTURES AND SYSTEM
THAT WE HAVE HERE (49:35)MANY
RESIDENTS WOKE UP WITHOUT
POWER TODAY....AND HAD TO TAKE
MORE CIRCUOUTOUS ROUTES TO
WORK.IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE A
BEAUTIFUL DAY LIKE TODAY COULD
COME AFTER A NIGHT LIKE LAST
NIGHT. BUT IF YOU'RE A CHILD
HERE AT ONE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
IN RIDGEFIELD IT MEANT YOU
COULD BE OUT ENJOYING THIS
BEAUTIFUL WEATHER (09:22)
...AND THEY HAD MOTHER NATURE
TO THANK. IT MUST HAVE BEEN A
LIGHTNING STRIKE OR A
TRANSFORMER THAT BLEW UP DUE
TO A TREE HITTING THE POWER
LINES. WHEN IT BLEW UP THE
TRANSFORMER A POWER SURGE MUST
HAVE HAPPENED AND IT BLEW UP
THE WELL PUMP SO THERE'S NO
WATER AT THIS SCHOOL SO EVEN
IF THEY GET THE ELECTRICITY
BACK ON THEY STILL HAVE TO
REPLACE THE WATER PUMP (53:33)
YOU CAN BET CREWS WILL BE
WORKING WELL INTO THE NIGHT TO
FIX THAT - AND OTHER PROBLEMS
LEFT BEHIND BY YESTERDAY'S
STORM. WE HAD NUMEROUS TREES
DOWN, WIRES DOWN, ROADS
BLOCKED. AS THE NIGHT WENT ON
THE RAIN INTENSIFIED AND WE
STARTED GETTING SOME MINOR
FLOODING IN THE ROADS AND IT
REALLY STRETCHED OUR RESOURCES
THIN (49:12)REPORTING IN
RIDGEFIELD AND WESTON, AR, N8.