Date: Fri 06-Dec-1996

Publication: Bee

Author: KAAREN

Quick Words:

weather-rain-wind-flooding

Full Text:

w/photo : Wet & Wild Weather

Strong gusting winds and heavy rain whipped through Newtown last Sunday night,

causing scattered power outages and flooded basements.

At the peak of the outage, about 4:30 am Monday, 328 residences, mostly on the

western side of town, were without power. Margo Jackson-Douglas, a spokesman

for Connecticut Light & Power, said 312 customers lost power when a primary

wire was knocked down in the Meadowbrook Road area by the storm.

Power was restored to all customers by 9:30 am, she said.

Hawleyville firefighters responded to a transformer fire on Currituck Road

just before 2 am Monday, Hook & Ladder went to the scene of sparking wires on

Glover Avenue about 6 am, and there were pumping details as basements flooded

on Sugar Street, Birch Rise Drive and Hall Lane.

Flooding on Edge Lake Drive in Pootatuck Park made the road impassable for

some homeowners there. Motorists crawled through hubcap-deep water water

during morning rush hour Monday as the Pootatuck flooded over its banks and

over the small bridge that crosses Mile Hill Road near Exit 11 of I-84.