[Slipperman]

Originally Posted by skel1977

Its not just Uverse. I have cox and they all went down AFTER the storm. I am in south windsor. I talked to some people at work and they also lost phone/internet around 6 at night and a few of them were direct tv or comcast. It must be a major router that took a hit and not the cable companies themselves.

good info.. thx

[Cambium]

Reports from Yesterday.

National Weather Service Text Product Display

Highest wind gust Bridgeport, 63mph.
Highest rain total: Monroe, 7.40 inches
highest sustained Wind speed: Bridgeport, 43mph.

I cannot imagine a Cat 1 or 2 in the area.

[Stylo]

A Cat 1 probably would have washed away most of the coast. Extra 5' of storm surge. More houses off their foundations. Triple or quadruple the trees down and houses damaged by trees. Keep in mind the state got half the rain expected. Flash floods everywhere, extreme river flooding. Way more outages. Would have been BAD. We're really lucky it went more west than expected.

So again, given the coastal battering in Milford and East Haven seen - nothing like that in those spots since 1938, right? A friend said Gloria did not whip the sound up like that and happened at low tide.

[Cambium]

Originally Posted by mkiv808

A Cat 1 probably would have washed away most of the coast. Extra 5' of storm surge. More houses off their foundations. Triple or quadruple the trees down and houses damaged by trees. Keep in mind the state got half the rain expected. Flash floods everywhere, extreme river flooding. Way more outages. Would have been BAD. We're really lucky it went more west than expected.

So again, given the coastal battering in Milford and East Haven seen - nothing like that in those spots since 1938, right? A friend said Gloria did not whip the sound up like that and happened at low tide.

Yup...Yup...Yup.

Here's a list of the outages in text format since the map is not being displayed from demand overload.

http://www.cl-p.com/outage/mobile.aspx

[Stylo]

Yeah, there's talk on Facebook from residents that have lived in Milford for 40-50+ years that the coast has never been hammered like that in all their time there. Don't even want to think what a Cat 1 would have done.

[Mike 75]

One thing not to lose sight of is the fact that this storm was huge in size and relatively slow moving, resulting in a longer exposure to the wind and rain. So while the sustained winds weren't that high, the cumulative effect made the resulting damage greater and across a wider area than from a typical size hurricane. I remember Gloria only lasting about 6 hours, Irene was at least double that.

[jjinla]

Did CT get hit worse than NY, or is CT Power just that much worse than Con Ed? I am frankly amazed at how many people here in Westchester still have power. We're within 1 mile of the coast and sure, many parts got flooded but no way did over half of our state lose power.

[Angelic_Avalon]

^ most people in Connecticut have power. My power never went off, either.

[Robyn55]

Originally Posted by jjinla

Did CT get hit worse than NY, or is CT Power just that much worse than Con Ed? I am frankly amazed at how many people here in Westchester still have power. We're within 1 mile of the coast and sure, many parts got flooded but no way did over half of our state lose power.

Doubt one power company is better or worse than another. The parts of Connecticut where power is out probably have more trees and above ground lines than Westchester. As for things like internet and cable tv - if they're running through above ground lines - and the lines go down - the service will not be restored until the lines are restored. With cell phones - when the towers go down - you lose your service. Reckon most cell towers did ok (takes more than a tree falling on them to bring them down). Robyn

[Robyn55]

Originally Posted by Angelic_Avalon

^ most people in Connecticut have power. My power never went off, either.

As of now - over 500,000 CP&L customers (45%) don't have power:

Outage Maps

So although most CP&L customers do have power - an awful lot don't. Robyn