Connecticut Light and Power Reports Power Outages

According to courant.com, stormy weather conditions have caused over 3,500 Connecticut Light and Power (CL&P) customers are without power. Thousands of people were left without power after the rough weather conditions on Monday morning. At 3 pm, there were still about a thousand customers without electricity, as reported by the CL&P website. At the peak of the storm, there were about 5, 100 people without power, according to Spokeswoman Kaite Blint. People living around a substation on Sand Bank Road in Cheshire were also customers effected by the storm because of wires knocked down after being struck by lightning. Over 2, 800 customers in Cheshire and Bristol near the substation lost power, but as of 1 pm, all of the people had electricity again. Anyone who sees fallen wires shouldn't go near them and needs to call 911 right away.